Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 19:01:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Garance A Drosehn <gad@santropez.acs.rpi.edu> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Cc: gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Subject: conf/19506: Running /stand/sysinstall can clobber /etc/make.conf Message-ID: <200006252301.TAA05200@santropez.acs.rpi.edu>
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>Number: 19506 >Category: conf >Synopsis: Running /stand/sysinstall can clobber /etc/make.conf >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Sun Jun 25 16:10:01 PDT 2000 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Garance A Drosehn >Release: FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE i386 >Organization: RPI; Troy NY >Environment: Running various snapshots of 4.0-release or 4.0-stable. Have not checked behavior on 5.0-current >Description: Do the initial system install. As part of that install, it will ask if you are a USA resident. In my case, I am. Answer 'yes' (or whatever appropriate). At the end of the install, /etc/make.conf will correctly have USA_RESIDENT=YES as the only line in it. So far so good. Now, after the install, run /stand/sysinstall again to do something. In my case, I wanted to fdisk and partition a second disk. I did this by starting a "standard install", just because I knew that would do the steps I wanted. After doing the fdisk and partition steps, I exitted that install process. At no time had I been asked if I was a US resident, because I hadn't really installed anything. After exitting /stand/sysinstall, the first line of /etc/make.conf had been changed to 'USA_RESIDENT=NO'. This proved confusing when I later went to build a newer snapshot of openssh/rsaref. >How-To-Repeat: See above. I have not checked to see what other paths in /stand/sysinstall might cause this line to be rewritten. >Fix: I have not investigated any fix as of this time. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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