Date: Thu, 01 May 1997 01:40:46 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: stesin@gu.net Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /usr/src/etc/Makefile install rule. Message-ID: <19268.862476046@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 01 May 1997 11:26:21 %2B0300." <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970501112423.703E-100000@trifork.gu.net>
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> > Comments? > > Say bye-bye to /etc/sysconfig? :) was it broken? It was cluttered. As I've said before, /etc/rc.conf is simply sysconfig "cleaned up" and ordered into a more compact, readable format. I'm also due to add a man page for rc.conf, which I will commit by this weekend into both -current and releng_2_2. Overall, it's a better, more sensible solution than /etc/sysconfig ever was. > (I won't care much as soon as a "compatibility" > symlink will exist in /etc for some time, > sysconfig -> rc.conf) Heh, you mean for editing it? That's up to you, but I don't actually intend to start installing that symlink in distributions. It would spam their existing sysconfig and give them nothing to migrate _from_, for one thing, and the two files are NOT compatible with one another. Part of the cleanup also involved chosing and using more sensible variable names to reduce the amount of "double duty" variables were doing in providing both an activation switch and an argument list to some option. This means that using sysconfig as a direct replacement for rc.conf will not work since certain crucial variables will not be set. Jordan
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