From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 20 11:29:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.hcisp.net (Stargate.hcisp.net [208.60.89.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4F67F37B69A for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2000 11:29:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tim@mysql.com) Received: (qmail 29798 invoked from network); 20 Apr 2000 17:38:26 -0000 Received: from modem4.hcisp.net (HELO threads.polyesthetic.msg) (208.60.89.70) by stargate.hcisp.net with SMTP; 20 Apr 2000 17:38:26 -0000 Received: (qmail 1866 invoked by uid 1001); 20 Apr 2000 18:29:08 -0000 From: "Thimble Smith" Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 14:29:07 -0400 To: Arcady Genkin Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make.conf moved in 4.0? Message-ID: <20000420142907.L1132@threads.polyesthetic.msg> References: <8766tcery1.fsf@tea.thpoon.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <8766tcery1.fsf@tea.thpoon.com>; from a.genkin@utoronto.ca on Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 11:02:30AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 11:02:30AM -0400, Arcady Genkin wrote: > What's the deal with make.conf in 4.0-S? I see that there is now > make.conf in /etc/defaults. Is the philosophy the same as with > rc.conf? Keep /etc/defaults/make.conf untouched and put overrides into > /etc/make.conf? > > Or can I "rm /etc/make.conf" now? /etc/make.conf is your local settings that override /etc/defaults/make.conf. You should never edit /etc/defaults/*; just copy the lines you want to change into /etc/* and then edit those. That way if you update your system, your local changes don't get wiped out and it's easier to manage. Tim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message