Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 11:49:13 -0800 (PST) From: Morgan Davis <mdavis@io.cts.com> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: dhawk@river.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 'make world' clobber /etc? DES? Message-ID: <199702231949.LAA23306@io.cts.com> In-Reply-To: <12311.856654303@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Feb 22, 97 03:31:43 pm"
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Jordan K. Hubbard writes: > Make world will not touch your /etc. This means that it's also more > than possible to get it *waaaay* out of date with the new startup > mechanisms expected by whatever you're upgrading to, so be sure and > very carefully merge all of this by hand. It's not fun, but it's > gotta be done. And no, don't ask me for a list of files - you'll have > to sort of intuit that for yourself based on what you've changed > locally. :-) I find that using "ls -l -t" in /usr/src/etc is very handy in listing the most recently changed files after each update. For those that are definitely newer, I then use diff to see if there aren't any custom changes I made to my own /etc files. If not, I just copy them in. Otherwise, I pull them both up in emacs (or jove) with two windows and manually apply the differences. Then reboot, depending on the changed files.
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