From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Nov 9 8:32:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 477AA14CCA for ; Tue, 9 Nov 1999 08:32:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA27335 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Tue, 9 Nov 1999 17:32:35 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olli) Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1999 17:32:35 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme Message-Id: <199911091632.RAA27335@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sysinstall bug? Organization: Administration Heim 3 Reply-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 RZTUC(3) PL2] Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Yiorgos Adamopoulos wrote in list.freebsd-stable: > 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. The only clean way, IMO. > 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 use CVS for all non-trivial configuration files. Using commented lines as a "history" is an ugly hack. Not an option. > I do not thing it is a mistake/bug, rather it is a deliberate design feature. I don't believe that (and I think I'm right, see Jordan's reply). > duplicate keys. Which makes me wonder: Couldn't rc.conf get generated by > something like a NEWDB map? What advantage would that have, except for obfuscating the whole thing? Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Terry Pratchett) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message