From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 15 02:45:39 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0955C16A4CE for ; Fri, 15 Oct 2004 02:45:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.village.org [168.103.84.182]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80CD843D31 for ; Fri, 15 Oct 2004 02:45:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from localhost (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by harmony.village.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id i9F2iVRR044313; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 20:44:32 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 20:44:34 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <20041014.204434.132073238.imp@bsdimp.com> To: randy@psg.com From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <16749.21420.643438.983797@ran.psg.com> References: <16749.21420.643438.983797@ran.psg.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 3.3 on Emacs 21.3 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: beating mergemaster to /etc/rc.d X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 02:45:39 -0000 In message: <16749.21420.643438.983797@ran.psg.com> Randy Bush writes: : i know that when i do a mergemaster, i am about to see 666 updates : to /etc/rc.d/*, to each of which i will have to type "qi". : as it will be over a 9600 baud remote serial console, this is a : pita and causes undue delay for the users. : : once i boot the new kernel -sw, is it safe to : : cp /usr/src/etc/rc.d/* /etc/rc.d : : and then run mergemaster -cvi? More or less. You get an extra Makefile if you do this. I'd be tempted to rm /etc/rc.d/* instead. Warner