From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Mar 4 23:54:27 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22E8B37B401; Tue, 4 Mar 2003 23:54:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za (zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za [146.64.24.58]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E12243F75; Tue, 4 Mar 2003 23:54:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhay@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za) Received: from zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za (8.12.8/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h257sJ80085139; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 09:54:20 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from jhay@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za) Received: (from jhay@localhost) by zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za (8.12.8/8.12.6/Submit) id h257sJ6J085136; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 09:54:19 +0200 (SAST) Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 09:54:18 +0200 From: John Hay To: Doug Barton Cc: John Hay , Ruslan Ermilov , Ceri Davies , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: r1.322 of src/Makefile.inc1 Message-ID: <20030305075418.GA82570@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za> References: <20030304165037.GA7463@submonkey.net> <20030304220701.GC73366@sunbay.com> <20030305054755.GA80723@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za> <20030304223421.K18288@znfgre.tberna.bet> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030304223421.K18288@znfgre.tberna.bet> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 10:35:39PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote: > On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, John Hay wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 12:07:01AM +0200, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 04:50:37PM +0000, Ceri Davies wrote: > > > > > > > > Was this behaviour from mergemaster intended ? > > > > > > > > > > > > *** Displaying differences between ./etc/login.conf.db and installed version: > > > > > > > > Binary files /etc/login.conf.db and ./etc/login.conf.db differ > > > > > > > > Use 'd' to delete the temporary ./etc/login.conf.db > > > > Use 'i' to install the temporary ./etc/login.conf.db > > > > Use 'm' to merge the temporary and installed versions > > > > Use 'v' to view the diff results again > > > > > > > > Default is to leave the temporary file to deal with by hand > > > > > > > > How should I deal with this? [Leave it for later] d > > > > > > > > *** Deleting ./etc/login.conf.db > > > > > > > Sorry, I don't use mergemaster(8) so I can't say. Doug was > > > all for this change, so he may be of some help here. > > > > I think it is because previously login.conf.db was optional. Now it > > is kind of forced on you because all installations will have it. So > > either you have to remember to delete it or remember to update it > > after login.conf has changed. > > Correct, but this is not a bad thing. :) mergemaster already prompts you > to rebuild it when it's updated, so this is not rocket science. Well I did not mean it was necessarily bad, but it is a change and might be ok for -current. I'm just not so sure it is good for -stable too. Say for instance someone is used to just editing /etc/login.conf and have it take effect, so if he installs 4.8 and just edit /etc/login.conf, it won't take effect as it did before. > > FWIW I never used login.conf.db on > > any of my machines because the system can read login.conf already > > and I don't maintain high login rate machines. > > Are you sure that login time is the only time that this is read? :) Well, no. :-) John -- John Hay -- John.Hay@icomtek.csir.co.za / jhay@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message