From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Aug 31 17:43:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from wall.polstra.com (rtrwan160.accessone.com [206.213.115.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC66737B423 for ; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 17:43:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA14726; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 17:43:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) From: John Polstra Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id RAA43832; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 17:43:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 17:43:53 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200009010043.RAA43832@vashon.polstra.com> To: arch@freebsd.org Reply-To: arch@freebsd.org Cc: dcs@newsguy.com Subject: Re: Request for review: nsswitch In-Reply-To: <39AE970A.30208A56@newsguy.com> References: <20000830071347.A1167@hamlet.nectar.com> <39AD222B.CE9A26B5@newsguy.com> <20000830132053.A15387@hamlet.nectar.com> <39AE970A.30208A56@newsguy.com> Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <39AE970A.30208A56@newsguy.com>, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > 2. /boot/loader.rc is never overwritten, but a default is installed > if not present. I did this not to rock the boat when loader.conf > stuff was introduced, and because a previously working version of > loader.rc would continue to work fine. That said, this one I have > never been comfortable with. This one actually bit me when I upgraded one of my machines to a version that required "/boot/device.hints". In the dim distant past when it was still considered OK, I had modified my "/boot/loader.rc" file to something that worked fine at the time. But it didn't have the ability to load the device.hints file and the install didn't fix it. Since it's no longer really an option to customize this file, I would prefer that it be installed unconditionally. John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Chögyam Trungpa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message