From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 6 01:20:35 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D40C1065670 for ; Sat, 6 Oct 2012 01:20:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bc979@lafn.org) Received: from zoom.lafn.org (zoom.lafn.org [108.92.93.123]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCC358FC0A for ; Sat, 6 Oct 2012 01:20:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.0.1.2] (pool-98-112-217-228.lsanca.fios.verizon.net [98.112.217.228]) (authenticated bits=0) by zoom.lafn.org (8.14.3/8.14.2) with ESMTP id q960uU2l012719 for ; Fri, 5 Oct 2012 17:56:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bc979@lafn.org) From: Doug Hardie Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2012 17:56:30 -0700 Message-Id: To: FreeBSD Mailing List Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1283) X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1283) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.97 at zoom.lafn.org X-Virus-Status: Clean Subject: freebsd-update X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2012 01:20:35 -0000 I am using freebsd-update to update a system running a generic kernel. = I ran into an interesting situation where after it has downloaded the = updates it enters a configuration phase where it shows "updated" config = files with the old and new. You can hit return to enter vi and clean up = the file. After that you get to a selection of files where you only get = the question does this look reasonable? Your options are Y or N. Y = makes the changes and N just terminates the entire update forcing you to = start over again from the beginning. Why can't you correct issues with = those config files? Why bother to even ask if there is only one = possible response (Y)?=