From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jun 12 16:28:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mailout4-0.nyroc.rr.com (mailout4-1.nyroc.rr.com [24.92.226.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB45737B401 for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 16:28:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from James_Bond_79@yahoo.com) Received: from Halstead007 (roc-24-169-196-57.rochester.rr.com [24.169.196.57]) by mailout4-0.nyroc.rr.com (8.11.2/RoadRunner 1.03) with SMTP id f5CNRD811842 for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 19:27:13 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: James To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: import NetBSD rc system Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 19:35:27 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <200106122157.OAA04259@hokkshideh.jetcafe.org> In-Reply-To: <200106122157.OAA04259@hokkshideh.jetcafe.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01061219352700.00417@Halstead007> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have one comment for whoever brings this in: One thing I have always liked about our system is that the rc.conf file is completely out of the source tree and under the users control. It looked to me like the netbsd system has /etc/rc.conf file source the /etc/defaults/rc.conf, and thus is part of source tree. I just don't want to have to deal with mergemaster asking me to install the new version of rc.conf for whatever reason. and just out of curiosity, I didn't think our mergemaster program had a way of handling the removal of files from the live /etc, I assume that for a upgrade of the rc system this would be necessary... just my $.0.02 James To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message