From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 19 16:18:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA06325 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 19 Mar 1998 16:18:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dt050n33.san.rr.com (@dt050n33.san.rr.com [204.210.31.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA06271; Thu, 19 Mar 1998 16:17:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Studded@dal.net) Received: from dal.net (Studded@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dt050n33.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA24828; Thu, 19 Mar 1998 16:17:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Studded@dal.net) Message-ID: <3511B5B5.C9B61A37@dal.net> Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 16:17:57 -0800 From: Studded Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-BETA-0316 i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG CC: jkh@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Discussion about script to update /etc, etc. References: <13495.890349767@time.cdrom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > 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. :-) Ok, the ports freeze is tomorrow I think, so pardon me for being pushy. :) Are you saying that you'd rather not move forward with a solution like I've proposed? That's fine with me if the timetable for getting something done about it will be less than two years. :) I don't mind making a port for the short term, but I'd rather not go through the work if someone's waiting in the wings to whip up a better solution. Doug -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** *** Proud operator, designer and maintainer of the world's largest *** Internet Relay Chat server. 5,328 clients and still growing. *** Try spider.dal.net on ports 6662-4 (Powered by FreeBSD) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message