From owner-cvs-all Fri Aug 28 23:24:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from daemon@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA19555 for cvs-all-outgoing; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 23:24:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA19541 for ; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 23:24:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA24387; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 00:23:20 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id AAA07984; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 00:23:19 -0600 Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 00:23:19 -0600 Message-Id: <199808290623.AAA07984@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Mike Smith Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make.conf In-Reply-To: <199808281849.SAA06317@dingo.cdrom.com> References: <23439.904355110@time.cdrom.com> <199808281849.SAA06317@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > The fact that we handle this badly during upgrades is what's probably > > leading to a lot of features like Matt's. If we did a better job of > > keeping /etc up to date while preserving the various localizations, > > it wouldn't be an issue. But we don't. :( > > Agreed. It's not *impossibly* hard to merge at least some of this > stuff; both rc.conf and make.conf are reasonably straightforward. I do what John Polstra suggested a while back. I copy my 'edited' copies to /usr/src/etc, and let CVS update it for me. It handles all of the stuff that can be done 'automatically', and the stuff I have to manual edit happens in a copy that doesn't affect the system negatively if it screws up. In short, it *just works*. Nate