Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 21:53:12 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> Cc: cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/forth beastie.4th Message-ID: <20030917185312.GB35801@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <3F689335.9030002@newsguy.com> References: <XFMail.20030916172933.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20030916192531.D39126@12-234-22-23.pyvrag.nggov.pbz> <20030917082559.GA60297@sunbay.com> <3F689335.9030002@newsguy.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 02:00:37PM -0300, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > > >Once again, we're talking about loader.rc, not loader.conf*. ;) > > > >John, Daniel, > > > >I'd like to follow this route: > > > >- create /boot/forth, and move all *.4th files there, > > > >- install stock loader.rc as /boot/defaults/loader.rc, > > > >- modify loader(8) to load /boot/loader.rc, and fall back to > > /boot/defaults/loader.rc if the former does not exist. > > The reason this wasn't done in first place was because people *depended* > on custom made loader.rc scripts. Overwriting their stuff out of the > blue wouldn't be... nice. > > The success of loader.conf has greatly diminished that practice, though, > so I think we can go with this proposal. But *please* make sure there > are enough heads ups in enough places. > > Also, see if you can't make loader.rc.old copies at install. Not to fall > back to, but just so people won't simply lose what they had. > Yes, I thought about this before, actually that was my first idea: create loader.rc.old only once, if it doesn't exist. But there's a slight problem here: I don't like it because once you remove the loader.rc.old, the next install will create it again. Actually, I like the John's idea of putting this under the NOFORTH knob's control a lot better. Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software Ltd, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/aK2YUkv4P6juNwoRAptLAJ94srt5zECM/EPUK9yn9iy9yRehdgCbB3i4 fISJyRJEvwnQ6jkZHJVuoLk= =RFD6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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