From owner-cvs-all Sat Aug 29 13:07:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from daemon@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA01725 for cvs-all-outgoing; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 13:07:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all) Received: from pluto.plutotech.com (mail.plutotech.com [206.168.67.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA01718 for ; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 13:07:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gibbs@plutotech.com) Received: from narnia.plutotech.com (narnia.plutotech.com [206.168.67.130]) by pluto.plutotech.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA27049; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 14:06:04 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199808292006.OAA27049@pluto.plutotech.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Nate Williams , committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make.conf In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 28 Aug 1998 23:35:06 PDT." <24450.904372506@time.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 14:00:05 -0600 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> 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 > >Impractical as a general solution, however. You can't expect every >user to keep a piece of the CVS repository on hand. It would be nice, >but still unreasonable to expect it. > >- Jordan There is a big difference between installing for the use a special CVS repository for tracking configuration files, and expecting them to have the standard src CVS tree on hand. I think the former, which could even be implemented using RCS, would be quite practical to implement. CVS and RCS are shipped as standard equipment in FreeBSD, why not use them if they fit the bill? -- Justin