From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 2 00:56:13 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 AB80A16A4CE; Mon, 2 Feb 2004 00:56:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.des.no (flood.des.no [217.116.83.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8815343D2D; Mon, 2 Feb 2004 00:56:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: by smtp.des.no (Pony Express, from userid 666) id 780D55312; Mon, 2 Feb 2004 09:55:47 +0100 (CET) Received: from dwp.des.no (des.no [80.203.228.37]) by smtp.des.no (Pony Express) with ESMTP id 6E2495321; Mon, 2 Feb 2004 09:48:42 +0100 (CET) Received: by dwp.des.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id A65C633C72; Mon, 2 Feb 2004 07:45:23 +0100 (CET) To: Doug Barton References: <401D9B55.4040606@FreeBSD.org> From: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 07:45:23 +0100 In-Reply-To: <401D9B55.4040606@FreeBSD.org> (Doug Barton's message of "Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:35:33 -0800") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.090024 (Oort Gnus v0.24) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on flood.des.no X-Spam-Level: ss X-Spam-Status: No, hits=2.6 required=5.0 tests=RCVD_IN_DYNABLOCK, RCVD_IN_SORBS autolearn=no version=2.63 cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: No longer necessary to 'rm /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: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 08:56:13 -0000 Doug Barton writes: > In order to keep /etc/rc.d up to date, it was frequently recommended > to do 'rm /etc/rc.d/* ; mergemaster -i'. As of 4 January this year > it's not only no longer necessary to do that, it's not a good idea to > do it. mergemaster now notifies you of stale files in /etc/rc.d, but > the part of the script that does that will do funny things if you > remove all the files first. It shouldn't do funny things. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no