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From: Morgan Davis <mdavis@io.cts.com>
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Subject: Re: 'make world' clobber /etc? DES?
To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 11:49:13 -0800 (PST)
Cc: dhawk@river.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
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 than possible to get it *waaaay* out of date with the new startup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.