From owner-cvs-all Sun Dec 13 04:33:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA25583 for cvs-all-outgoing; Sun, 13 Dec 1998 04:33:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA25569; Sun, 13 Dec 1998 04:33:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.1/8.9.1) id NAA02089; Sun, 13 Dec 1998 13:32:58 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from des) To: Mark Murray Cc: John Birrell , jb@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc Makefile References: <199812122318.KAA27548@cimlogic.com.au> <199812130825.KAA17866@greenpeace.grondar.za> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 13 Dec 1998 13:32:57 +0100 In-Reply-To: Mark Murray's message of "Sun, 13 Dec 1998 10:25:32 +0200" Message-ID: Lines: 17 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Mark Murray writes: > John Birrell wrote: > > > What *would* be useful is a patch that finds missing files and warns > > > about them. > > But that won't meet the requirements of those who say that missing files > > is a normal case. Committing such a change will generate just as many > > emails from people who don't like _that_. > How about installing them as .sample as a hint? Better, but not sufficient; it assumes that the user checks 'ls /etc/*sample' after make world. For such a feature to have any effect, you have to somehow warn the user about missing files, e.g. by mailing a list to root. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message