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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: hackers@freebsd.org, jkh@time.cdrom.com
Subject: Re: /usr/src/etc/Makefile install rule.
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>Would anyone have any objections if this suddenly went from
>being a no-op to installing:
>
>	rc
>	rc.firewall
>	rc.network
>	rc.serial
>	rc.pccard
>	etc.i386/rc.i386
>
>Into /etc?

Yes.

>Only /etc/rc.conf and /etc/rc.local are supposed to be customized, so
>that would make the other rc files "generic" enough to simply install
>(and if one's not, we should fix that rather than not install it).

rc.serial is supposed to be customized.  Installing the others would
be Wrong.  You could do a `cmp -s ...' or `diff ... | grep -q Id' and
complain about files that seem to be wrong or out of date.

Bruce