From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 28 12:45:04 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 604FE37B401; Mon, 28 Apr 2003 12:45:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from magic.adaptec.com (magic-mail.adaptec.com [208.236.45.100]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A15CF43FA3; Mon, 28 Apr 2003 12:45:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scott_long@btc.adaptec.com) Received: from redfish.adaptec.com (redfish.adaptec.com [162.62.50.11]) by magic.adaptec.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h3SJg8Z06018; Mon, 28 Apr 2003 12:42:08 -0700 Received: from btc.btc.adaptec.com ([10.100.0.52]) by redfish.adaptec.com (8.8.8p2+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA11696; Mon, 28 Apr 2003 12:44:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from btc.adaptec.com (hollin [10.100.253.56]) by btc.btc.adaptec.com (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA01738; Mon, 28 Apr 2003 13:44:51 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <3EAD83F5.7030302@btc.adaptec.com> Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 13:41:41 -0600 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030414 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Barton References: <20030426154030.M13476@znfgre.qbhto.arg> <20030427105313.GA507@roughtrade.net> <20030428100246.GB70290@regency.nsu.ru> <20030428103349.G3894@znfgre.qbhto.arg> In-Reply-To: <20030428103349.G3894@znfgre.qbhto.arg> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Alexey Dokuchaev cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [FreeBSD-rc] Re: RFC: Removal of the old rc system from -current X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 19:45:04 -0000 Doug Barton wrote: > On Mon, 28 Apr 2003, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > > >>On Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 08:53:13PM +1000, Joshua Goodall wrote: >> >>>On Sat, Apr 26, 2003 at 03:46:08PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: >>> >>>>We're also starting to see some confusion on the part of users about >>>>having both systems on disk. >>> >>>Time to teach mergemaster about files that are now stale, so it can >>>offer to remove (or archive) them for the user? >> >>It would be nice to teach make intallworld to remove stale files from >>the base as well. > > > There is an enormous amount of discussion about that point in the -current > archives. Suffice it to say, it's not nearly as easy as it sounds. > > Doug > Doug, I think that you and others have convinced me that there isn't an overwhelming need to deprecate rcOG. The only gate to removing it for 5.1 is that I would like for you and Scot Hetzel to get with Bruce Mah and write up appropriate release documentation to help users with any transition issues. I know that Bruce has some specific questions that he would like answered. Thanks, Scott