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To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
cc: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, current@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Upgrading rc files + CTM outage? 
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Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 18:47:10 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> "cvs update" works pretty well for this sort of thing.  First,
> figure out which version of /etc/sysconfig you started with, by
> doing "ident /etc/sysconfig".  For concreteness, let's say it was
> version 1.40.  Get into an empty working directory, and check out
> that version:

Huh!  I wonder if putting the CVS repository on a CD would let
me use something like this technique for upgrading /etc. ;-)

Peter, speaking of which, whatever happened to those patches to
allow CVS to use a read-only repository?  I think it's the only
hold-up for anoncvs as well, right?

					Jordan