Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1999 03:52:26 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: sysinstall bug? Message-ID: <199911090252.DAA19021@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
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Hi,
Last week I installed FreeBSD 3.3-stable at a friend (to be
exact: the 19991101 snapshot, which was the most current one
at that time). Everything went smoothly, but there was one
thing which made me wonder...
Personally, I never use sysinstall to change any settings, but
I edit /etc/rc.conf directly. However, that friend comes from
the Windows/Linux camp and is used to use GUIs and stuff (he
also uses Midnight Commander as root *shudder*), so he used
sysinstall to change various settings. Well, that's OK.
But when I had a look at the system later that day, I noticed
that /etc/rc.conf had gotten longer and longer. Each time he
ran sysinstall, it obviously appended a line like this:
# -- sysinstall generated deltas -- #
and then blindly appended the new settings. This resulted in
a lot of duplicate (and contradictory) entries. Of course, it
worked (because the latest entries override the preceding
ones), but the whole file was a great mess.
Now my question is: Isn't sysinstall supposed to look for
existing entries in /etc/rc.conf and _replace_ them, instead
of always appending? What purpose does that "generated deltas"
line have? Did we do anything wrong?
Should I send patches? :)
Regards
Oliver
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