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Date:      Fri, 28 Aug 1998 22:11:39 -0700 (PDT)
From:      dima@best.net (Dima Ruban)
To:        mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith)
Cc:        dillon@backplane.com, jkh@time.cdrom.com, mike@smith.net.au, committers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: make.conf
Message-ID:  <199808290511.WAA20198@burka.rdy.com>
In-Reply-To: <199808282141.VAA00419@word.smith.net.au> from Mike Smith at "Aug 28, 1998  9:40:59 pm"

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Mike Smith writes:
> That would imply a minimum of conflict between an automatically 
> upgraded /etc/rc.conf and your scheme; because you leave /etc/rc.conf 
> untouched, the upgrade would simply migrate it to the newer version, 
> but your overrides would be left untouched.
> 
> The one difficult case would be where a new addition to /etc/rc.conf 
> was made which enabled a service which you wanted disabled.

I don't see a problem here, since rc.conf.local is included at the very end
of /etc/rc.conf. Or am I missing something?

> -- 
> \\  Sometimes you're ahead,       \\  Mike Smith
> \\  sometimes you're behind.      \\  mike@smith.net.au
> \\  The race is long, and in the  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
> \\  end it's only with yourself.  \\  msmith@cdrom.com
> 
> 

-- dima



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