Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 10:55:50 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> To: Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav <des@des.no> Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 6.0 on Alpha Message-ID: <20040830075550.GA86739@ip.net.ua> In-Reply-To: <xzpacwdrg11.fsf@dwp.des.no> References: <xzp8yc3wllz.fsf@dwp.des.no> <xzpy8k07ffy.fsf@dwp.des.no> <Pine.SOL.4.58-Blink.0408291140270.10811@tea.blinkenlights.nl> <20040829145526.GF23120@ip.net.ua> <xzpacwdrg11.fsf@dwp.des.no>
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On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 07:49:14PM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote:
> Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> writes:
> > But I specifically made the "distribution" target in
> > src/etc/Makefile install the device.hints file, in a hope that
> > mergemaster(8) will pick it up. Is it not the case?
>
> Yup. Could you please do the same with loader.rc? It's currently the
> only file in the system that is never updated by world or mergemaster.
>
Not the only file actually. I've spoken with dcs@ many times
about /boot/loader.rc, and he insists to keep it "not updated
if it already exists".
> > Ah, it looks like mergemaster(8) only cares about updating /etc,
> > which is bad. :-(
>
> wrong, mergemaster handles /boot/device.hints just fine.
>
Ah, right:
: cd "${TEMPROOT}"
: ...
: for COMPFILE in `find . -type f -size +0`; do
Sorry for the false alarm.
Cheers,
--
Ruslan Ermilov
ru@FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer
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