From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 23 13:11:42 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC391106566B for ; Sun, 23 Mar 2008 13:11:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stefan.lambrev@moneybookers.com) Received: from blah.sun-fish.com (blah.sun-fish.com [217.18.249.150]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68C628FC1B for ; Sun, 23 Mar 2008 13:11:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stefan.lambrev@moneybookers.com) Received: by blah.sun-fish.com (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 898641B10EBB; Sun, 23 Mar 2008 14:03:58 +0100 (CET) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on blah.cmotd.com X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-10.6 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.3 Received: from [10.1.1.2] (unknown [192.168.25.10]) by blah.sun-fish.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B600D1B10CAA; Sun, 23 Mar 2008 14:03:55 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <47E65535.1030903@moneybookers.com> Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 15:03:49 +0200 From: Stefan Lambrev User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Windows/20080213) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Garrett Wollman References: <868x0ezh9u.fsf@zid.claresco.hr> <200803192028.m2JKSZen098816@lurza.secnetix.de> <20080323000707.GA33311@fupp.net> <200803230420.m2N4Kl6O078184@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <200803230420.m2N4Kl6O078184@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.91.2/6334/Sun Mar 23 07:16:06 2008 on blah.cmotd.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading to 7.0 - stupid requirements X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 13:11:43 -0000 Garrett Wollman wrote: > In article , > Freddie Cash writes: > > >> Oh, gods, please, no! That is one of the things I absolutely hate >> about Debian (and its derivatives). There are some packages on Debian >> where they use separate text files for each configuration option >> (ProFTPd, for examples). It is a huge mess of directories and files >> that makes it a *royal* PITA to edit at the CLI. >> >> Yes, a scheme like that is better for GUI tools, but it really makes >> things more difficult for non-GUI users/uses (like headless servers >> managed via SSH). >> > > Try managing a few hundred mostly-but-not-entirely-identical machines > and you really begin to appreciate the value of this approach. It is > orders of magnitude easier to drop one file into the central config > repository that does *one thing* than it is to manage a dozen > not-quite-identical copies of a monolithic configuration file, keeping > in sync the parts that are supposed to be in sync, and keeping the > parts that are supposed to be different, different. > > If FreeBSD were able to do this, it might have a bit more traction at > my place of employment. > I'm little puzzled. What actually FreeBSD and current portsystem + tools are not able to do?!?! You mean "I do not know how to do it" may be? > -GAWollman > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >