From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jul 21 07:12:16 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA14920 for stable-outgoing; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 07:12:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tyree.iii.co.uk (tyree.iii.co.uk [193.117.77.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA14914 for ; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 07:12:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nik@localhost) by tyree.iii.co.uk (8.8.4/8.8.4) id PAA17186; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 15:10:18 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <19970721151017.19441@iii.co.uk> Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 15:10:17 +0100 From: Nik.Clayton@iii.co.uk To: Conrad Sabatier Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "saver" References: <26966.869480270@time.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.76e In-Reply-To: ; from Conrad Sabatier on Mon, Jul 21, 1997 at 07:24:04AM -0500 Organization: interactive investor Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, Jul 21, 1997 at 07:24:04AM -0500, Conrad Sabatier wrote: > Well, this thread certainly does help to illustrate some of the confusion > that can result during an upgrade re: /etc. :-) Yep. Been there, done that. > OK, shoot me if this sounds terribly simplistic or heretical, but why not > have the install part of "make world" actually do just that -- install all > the files in /etc that are supposed to be installed to have a functioning > system? Take a look through http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/upgrade/upgrade.html and see the steps that need to be done to *properly* upgrade /etc. > It would be a simple matter to either rename the old /etc files to say, > *.old, or to install the new versions as *.new. Or perhaps even create a > whole new directory, say, /etc.new. Replacing steps 4.x in the above tutorial? That wouldn't be too hard. > Can anyone think of why this would be a Bad Idea? Not particularly. I'd prepare patches myself, except I don't currently have an accessible FreeBSD machine. -- --+==[ Nik Clayton is Just Another Perl Hacker at Interactive Investor ]==+-- Pithy quotes suck.