From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 9 20:21:58 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21F9D1065670 for ; Fri, 9 Jul 2010 20:21:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [65.122.17.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7E748FC0C for ; Fri, 9 Jul 2010 20:21:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bigwig.baldwin.cx (66.111.2.69.static.nyinternet.net [66.111.2.69]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 99AC446BA6 for ; Fri, 9 Jul 2010 16:21:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: from jhbbsd.localnet (smtp.hudson-trading.com [209.249.190.9]) by bigwig.baldwin.cx (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B1D8D8A03C for ; Fri, 9 Jul 2010 16:21:56 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 16:21:51 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (FreeBSD/7.3-CBSD-20100217; KDE/4.4.5; amd64; ; ) References: <201006101346.59824.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <201006101346.59824.jhb@freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201007091621.51288.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0.1 (bigwig.baldwin.cx); Fri, 09 Jul 2010 16:21:56 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.95.1 at bigwig.baldwin.cx X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=4.2 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.5 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on bigwig.baldwin.cx Subject: Re: RFC: etcupdate tool in base? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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: Fri, 09 Jul 2010 20:21:58 -0000 On Thursday, June 10, 2010 1:46:59 pm John Baldwin wrote: > I've had several folks ask me recently about importing etcupdate > (http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/etcupdate) into the base system as an alternate > tool for updating /etc during upgrades. Do folks have any strong objections > to doing so? More details about how it works and an HTML version of the > manpage can be found at the URL above. I finally committed a port to ports/sysutils/etcupdate for this today. If at some point lots of folks call for an import we can revisit this then. One small advantage of importing is that we could have make release automatically bootstrap it similar to how we do now for mtree databases (I do this in my FooBSD at work, it is a one-line patch to the release Makefile). -- John Baldwin