From owner-cvs-all Tue Feb 17 04:03:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA09720 for cvs-all-outgoing; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 04:03:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from veda.is (adam@veda.is [193.4.230.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA09697; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 04:03:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from adam@veda.is) Received: (from adam@localhost) by veda.is (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA28892; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 12:02:51 GMT (envelope-from adam) From: Adam David Message-Id: <199802171202.MAA28892@veda.is> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/ipfw ipfw.c In-Reply-To: <7277.887711061@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Feb 17, 98 02:24:21 am" To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 12:02:49 +0000 (GMT) Cc: alex@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-sbin@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > Alex's commit is a good thing. It'll save transition shock for any of > the many *thousands* of people who'll upgrade their 2.2.5 to 2.2.6 > purely through the world target and not go anywhere near /etc. Points well taken. > Of course, if by this you or anyone else is volunteering to write the > /etc auto-updater that so many have talked about and so few have > implemented (myself right up there with the guiltiest of them), well > then that's another kettle of fish and I'd be very interested indeed > in seeing such a script/program/whatever become part of the long-awaited > "make upgrade" target. :-) I like the idea of generating the files in /etc from templates, merging in the local configuration from a master config file or directory, but it takes more than an idea to make it work. At the moment I've just been using !!grep inside of vi to bring in the relevant lines from locally edited previous versions of installed files, and merging by eye. It gets the job done, but could do with being more automatic. -- Adam David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message