Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 16:32:57 -0400 From: Garance A Drosehn <gad@FreeBSD.org> To: Helge Oldach <helge.oldach@atosorigin.com> Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: "Chatty" config files in /etc Message-ID: <p06230921c11cf65c6bb0@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <200608311258.OAA23536@galaxy.hbg.de.ao-srv.com> References: <200608311258.OAA23536@galaxy.hbg.de.ao-srv.com>
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At 2:58 PM +0200 8/31/06, Helge Oldach wrote: >Roman Kurakin: > > I suggest to make these files the way which would encourage peoples > > to keep example part, for example, under working part. Example will > > be still in the file, it will not bother admin, cause it do not > > cover essential part of the file, and will simplify merging. > >So, with the benefit of easing merging for committers, we end up >with two separate files for the end users (and sysadmins) - one >"example file" and one "tru config file". IMHO this sounds like >complicating matters. I think you misunderstand the goal. This is meant to benefit every single user who *updates* FreeBSD. That is a much larger audience than committers. This split has nothing to do with merging changes into the FreeBSD source repository. The merge we are talking about is the step where every FreeBSD user runs 'mergemaster' (or something equivalent) to bring in important changes to files under /etc, without losing all the important localizations that every sysadmin has to do. It effects every user who ever does a 'cd /usr/src ; make installworld'. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = drosehn@rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@FreeBSD.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy, NY; USA
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