From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 11 21:39:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from corinth.bossig.com (mail.dohboys.com [208.26.253.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD5BB37B837 for ; Sun, 11 Jun 2000 21:39:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@3-cities.com) Received: from 3-cities.com (unverified [208.26.242.223]) by corinth.bossig.com (Rockliffe SMTPRA 4.2.1) with ESMTP id ; Sun, 11 Jun 2000 21:40:15 -0700 Message-ID: <3944695A.57A41ECC@3-cities.com> Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 21:38:50 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Organization: BOSSig (BOSS Internet Group) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Francisco Reyes Cc: FreeBSD questions Subject: Re: use of /etc/defaults/make.conf? References: <200006120423.AAA03417@sanson.reyes.somos.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Francisco Reyes wrote: > > What is the purpose of /etc/defaults/make.conf? > All it's lines are marked as comments. I don't know if this is the official line, but it looks like it has everything that can be changed and is a template for the options that you can use in your specialized version. > > As I undertand the files in /etc/defaults are not to be changed. > One should change the corresponding files in /etc/. Is that > statement correct? Yes, you take the line from defaults and add it to the corresponding file in /etc. All I have in mine is USA_RESIDENT=YES HAVE_MOTIF=YES USE_128BIT=YES COMPAT22=yes COMPAT3x=yes NOPROFILE=true CFLAGS= -O -pipe I find I have to keep checking because USA keeps being set to no by cvsup or make world. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message