Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 15:22:47 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> Cc: Studded <Studded@dal.net>, FreeBSD-Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Discussion about script to update /etc, etc. Message-ID: <13495.890349767@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 19 Mar 1998 16:00:58 %2B0100." <19980319160058.14256@follo.net>
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> Jordan - what's the chance of automatically getting a pristine copy of > the /etc directory stored along the actual one, for later upgrades? > Just making sysinstall copy all files in /etc into /etc/pristine on > initial install should make good upgrades much easier... Hmmmmm. I don't like this. I think we need to simply bite the bullet and make the user-mutable parts of the /etc configuration template based, as Paul Traina first suggested about, oh, 2 years ago. :-) Any takers? Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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