From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Nov 9 1:38:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ulysses.noc.ntua.gr (ulysses.noc.ntua.gr [147.102.222.230]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A067B14F5F for ; Tue, 9 Nov 1999 01:38:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from adamo@dblab.ece.ntua.gr) Received: from dblab.ece.ntua.gr (ithaca.dbnet.ece.ntua.gr [147.102.12.1]) by ulysses.noc.ntua.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA46186 for ; Tue, 9 Nov 1999 11:38:04 +0200 (EET) Received: (from george@localhost) by dblab.ece.ntua.gr (8.10.0.Beta6/8.9.3) id dA99c4c47440 for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 9 Nov 1999 11:38:04 +0200 (EET) Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1999 11:38:04 +0200 From: Yiorgos Adamopoulos To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysinstall bug? Message-ID: <19991109113804.A28229@dblab.ece.ntua.gr> Reply-To: adamo@dblab.ece.ntua.gr References: <199911090252.DAA19021@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <199911090252.DAA19021@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>; from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de on Tue, Nov 09, 1999 at 03:52:26AM +0100 X-Organization: Knowledge and Data Base Systems Laboratory, National Technical University of Athens, GREECE X-URL: http://home.eu.org/~adamo X-Alt-Email: adamo@ieee.org X-Work-Phone: +30-1-772-1-436 X-Work-FAX: +30-1-772-1-442 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Nov 09, 1999 at 03:52:26AM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: > Now my question is: Isn't sysinstall supposed to look for > existing entries in /etc/rc.conf and _replace_ them, instead That would be one way of doing things. > of always appending? What purpose does that "generated deltas" > line have? Did we do anything wrong? Well, the nice thing with the way sysinstall works now is that you have a history of changes in /etc/rc.conf. Much like the way you do when you change it by hand (you do comment changes, don't you? ;-) I do not thing it is a mistake/bug, rather it is a deliberate design feature. What it lacks is an option that can "compress" it to a "normal" size with no duplicate keys. Which makes me wonder: Couldn't rc.conf get generated by something like a NEWDB map? ------------------------------------ Yiorgos Adamopoulos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message