From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 1 11:30:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA08306 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 1 May 1997 11:30:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA08299 for ; Thu, 1 May 1997 11:30:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA04771; Thu, 1 May 1997 11:29:21 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199705011829.LAA04771@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: /usr/src/etc/Makefile install rule. To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 11:29:20 -0700 (MST) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199705011659.CAA17533@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at May 2, 97 02:59:22 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > >> 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 > > > >Why? I can see why rc.serial and rc.firewall are poor choices, > >but this doesn't explain your aversion to installing the other > >files. > > It would break years of tradition and subject /etc to patch-of-the-day > syndrome. Sorry, but since when is it OK to change the binaries (like mount) that are referenced by files in /etc, but not the files in /etc themselvs (except of course "mtree/*", which is somehow immune from the rule)? Sepcifically, the files that Jordan is talking about updating are "no user servicable parts inside" files (omitting rc.serial and rc.firewall). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.