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Date:      Wed, 6 Jun 2018 01:39:00 +0700
From:      Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net>
To:        Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, Brad Davis <brd@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@leidinger.net>, rgrimes@freebsd.org, Kyle Evans <kevans@freebsd.org>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r334617 - in head: . etc
Message-ID:  <5B16D8C4.10809@grosbein.net>
In-Reply-To: <20180605182605.GN2450@kib.kiev.ua>
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06.06.2018 1:26, Konstantin Belousov wrote:

>>> I find it often very useful to do
>>> 	(cd src/etc/rc.d && make install)
>>> Same for defaults and several other directories which in fact contains
>>> non-editable content.  Is this planned to keep working ?
>>
>> The short answer is, no.  All rc.d scripts get moved to the src of the program they start.
>>
>> That said, if there is a big need for this, we can see about options to keep them working.
>>
>> What are you trying to accomplish when you do this?  Just verify the rc.d scripts match your src tree?
> 
> I avoid mergemaster/etcupdate and whatever else. rc.d and /etc/rc,
> /etc/rc.subr /etc/rc.network are not suitable to etc, they are binaries
> provided by the project not for the user editing.
> 
> When upgrading the host, esp. on HEAD, i usually refresh scripts by this
> procedure and avoid any editing and implied conflict resolution for real
> configs.
> 
> Not being able to easily install clean copies of these scripts would
> be very inconvenient and time consuming.

I found that "mergemaster -iFUP" deals with unchanged files including mentioned rc* scripts just fine.
That is, it automatically refreshes unchanged files without any silly questions just for change of $FreeBSD$.




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