From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 12 12:47:57 2005 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 25EF116A4CE; Wed, 12 Jan 2005 12:47:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 191F843D48; Wed, 12 Jan 2005 12:47:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.12.11/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j0CCln8L098110; Wed, 12 Jan 2005 23:17:50 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 23:17:37 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.1 References: <16749.21420.643438.983797@ran.psg.com> <20050112105034.GA51959@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> <20050112115954.GB68344@heechee.tobez.org> In-Reply-To: <20050112115954.GB68344@heechee.tobez.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1519589.c9QQFITtb6"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200501122317.44517.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -5.4 () IN_REP_TO,PGP_SIGNATURE_2,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01,USER_AGENT,USER_AGENT_KMAIL X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.16 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) cc: Peter Jeremy cc: Anton Berezin 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: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 12:47:57 -0000 --nextPart1519589.c9QQFITtb6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 22:29, Anton Berezin wrote: > > Note that there are still risks in blindly applying CVS changes. There > > have been a couple of cases where defaults have changed meaning that > > corresponding changes to local system configuration is required to > > retain previous behaviour. > > Yeah, the possibility to shoot yourself if the foot is always there. On > the other hand, I would expect that 1) changes in defaults should be in > UPDATING, and 2) most people qi such files (say, for > /etc/defaults/rc.conf) without looking too closely into the actual > diffs. Those default changes are always (or should always be :) UPDATING fodder.. *cough*etcmerge*cough* :) =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart1519589.c9QQFITtb6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBB5Rxw5ZPcIHs/zowRAnQrAKCfDWY+zVG1QPvmGrjRH93WM2RmSACgiwQx Zf9XcHGcFeFdSODFJEbO53s= =j5uW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1519589.c9QQFITtb6--