From owner-freebsd-bugs Wed Mar 14 18: 0:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8373637B718 for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 18:00:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f2F205Y09230; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 18:00:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 18:00:05 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200103150200.f2F205Y09230@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: conf/25359: upgrading to 4.2-RELEASE clobbers mailer.conf Reply-To: Kris Kennaway Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR conf/25359; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Kris Kennaway To: Bill Trost Cc: jkh@freebsd.org, freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: conf/25359: upgrading to 4.2-RELEASE clobbers mailer.conf Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 17:50:45 -0800 --Q68bSM7Ycu6FN28Q Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 05:43:57PM -0800, Bill Trost wrote: > Kris Kennaway writes: > If you're clobbering files in /etc when you upgrade, > you are going to have problems. This is why you need to be careful > when merging in updates -- mergemaster makes this easy for upgrades > when you have the source tree present. >=20 > Why does everyone keep assuming I have the source tree present? This is > using the pgrade option on the FreeBSD boot floppies -- the ones you > build off the CD. Was my bug report that badly written? >=20 > (Hmm...looking it over, I guess it was...) Yeah..apparently what you meant to say is "using the upgrade target of sysinstall doesn't allow you to merge in changes to the mailer.conf file, but always clobbers it leaving you with a possibly broken mailer" which would have been a useful bug report to start with :-) Kris --Q68bSM7Ycu6FN28Q Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6sB/1Wry0BWjoQKURAtDRAJ9KmfUBgGlucvEHBF6PduQQmVSmwgCgyQqa 2WLXSREobZoIh/N1/m3Gam8= =bTjC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Q68bSM7Ycu6FN28Q-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message