From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 19 15:23:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA25760 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 19 Mar 1998 15:23:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA25697; Thu, 19 Mar 1998 15:23:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA13498; Thu, 19 Mar 1998 15:22:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) To: Eivind Eklund cc: Studded , FreeBSD-Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Discussion about script to update /etc, etc. In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 19 Mar 1998 16:00:58 +0100." <19980319160058.14256@follo.net> Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 15:22:47 -0800 Message-ID: <13495.890349767@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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