From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 7 09:50:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA22857 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 7 Apr 1997 09:50:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA22824 for ; Mon, 7 Apr 1997 09:49:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id JAA00177; Mon, 7 Apr 1997 09:30:34 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199704071630.JAA00177@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: on the subject of changes to -RELEASEs... To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 09:30:34 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199704071638.CAA09277@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Apr 8, 97 02:08:50 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Crap. Whilst you can, certainly, devise a pathological case to > justify your claims, the reality is that the sort of changes mooted > will not, on the whole, mandate /etc/ changes, and the proposed > service is worthwhile. Also note that the 'source-diff' plan doesn't > have anything to do with /etc. If you have a beef with Danny's work, > take it up with him. How can this scheme cause Robert Withrow's AMD/NIS "eval" changes to /etc/sysconfig and /etc/rc to work on my machine? I don't think that case is pathalogical at all, and it's just the first one off the top of my head. I believe there were mount option changes a while back as well. What about the mount utility changes for the 4.4BSD-Lite2 merge? > The scheme _is_ practical. You are being part of the problem; please > desist 8) The soloution is known and long-standing, it's just never been adopted because of the /var and rc.d changes being "too SysV-like" (ie: NIH). (How can advocating a particular soloution be construed as "being part of the problem"? It would seem more like "part of the soloution"...) Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.