Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2018 12:18:00 -0700 From: Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com> To: Brad Davis <brd@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net>, Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@leidinger.net>, rgrimes@freebsd.org, Kyle Evans <kevans@freebsd.org>, "src-committers" <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r334617 - in head: . etc Message-ID: <201806061918.w56JI0kk045200@slippy.cwsent.com> In-Reply-To: Message from Brad Davis <brd@FreeBSD.org> of "Tue, 05 Jun 2018 14:44:49 -0600." <1528231489.2440725.1397620864.5987B9ED@webmail.messagingengine.com>
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In message <1528231489.2440725.1397620864.5987B9ED@webmail.messagingengi ne.com> , Brad Davis writes: > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > > --_----------=_152823148924407253 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > > On Tue, Jun 5, 2018, at 1:28 PM, Konstantin Belousov wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 06, 2018 at 01:39:00AM +0700, Eugene Grosbein wrote: > > > 06.06.2018 1:26, Konstantin Belousov wrote: > > > > > > >>> I find it often very useful to do > > > >>> (cd src/etc/rc.d && make install) > > > >>> Same for defaults and several other directories which in fact > > > >>> contains> > >>> non-editable content. Is this planned to keep workin > g ? > > > >> > > > >> The short answer is, no. All rc.d scripts get moved to the src > > > >> of the program they start.> > >> > > > >> That said, if there is a big need for this, we can see about > > > >> options to keep them working.> > >> > > > >> What are you trying to accomplish when you do this? Just verify > > > >> the rc.d scripts match your src tree?> > > > > > > I avoid mergemaster/etcupdate and whatever else. rc.d and /etc/rc,> > > > /etc/rc.subr /etc/rc.network are not suitable to etc, they are > > > > binaries> > > provided by the project not for the user editing. > > > > > > > > When upgrading the host, esp. on HEAD, i usually refresh scripts > > > > by this> > > procedure and avoid any editing and implied conflict resol > ution > > > > for real> > > configs. > > > > > > > > Not being able to easily install clean copies of these scripts > > > > would> > > be very inconvenient and time consuming. > > > > > > I found that "mergemaster -iFUP" deals with unchanged files > > > including mentioned rc* scripts just fine.> > That is, it automatically r > efreshes unchanged files without any > > > silly questions just for change of $FreeBSD$.> > > No, you missed the point. Whatever nice is the handling of > > unchanged files,> use of mergemaster forces me to handle changed files, whi > ch is exactly> what I do not want/need to do. Yes, I update crashboxes very > > often, and> I want to get all new code, including the startup scripts, when > > I update. > The startup scripts will be installed as part of installworld. Shouldn't this be worked out in a phab review first? -- Cheers, Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com> FreeBSD UNIX: <cy@FreeBSD.org> Web: http://www.FreeBSD.org The need of the many outweighs the greed of the few.
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