Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 20:40:06 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: beating mergemaster to /etc/rc.d Message-ID: <20041013174006.GA45565@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> In-Reply-To: <16749.26278.206492.660230@ran.psg.com> References: <16749.21420.643438.983797@ran.psg.com> <20041013170005.GA6454@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> <16749.24502.567291.640966@ran.psg.com> <20041013172859.GA38167@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> <16749.26278.206492.660230@ran.psg.com>
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On 2004-10-13 10:32, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote:
> >> INSTALL_ETCRC=false # default not to just stomp in new /etc/rc.d/*
> > Err, no. Why would you need that?
>
> so i can edit it to 'true' if my /etc/rc.d is not hacked
FWIW,
There was a long discussion about this in one of the lists a few days
ago. A lot of opinions were exchanged, and some of the suggestions were
actually very good. You might want to check out the archives of the
cvs-all mailing list for that. See the thread with a subject of:
What we keep under /etc (was: cvs commit: src/etc rc [...]
One of the alternatives was to install the sysutils/etcmerge port which,
according to its author, works better than mergemaster in cases like
this -- without modifications to the src/etc source tree or extra hacks
in `make.conf'.
- Giorgos
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