From owner-freebsd-current Mon Apr 22 16:39:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA28464 for current-outgoing; Mon, 22 Apr 1996 16:39:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA28453 for ; Mon, 22 Apr 1996 16:39:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id QAA18150; Mon, 22 Apr 1996 16:35:07 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199604222335.QAA18150@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: What do folks think of the following patch? To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 16:35:07 -0700 (MST) Cc: julian@ref.tfs.com, nate@sri.MT.net, current@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <9830.830195506@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Apr 22, 96 10:51:46 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-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > I would like a make world to also install etc if the DESTDIR is not / > > I often make images of systems and want /etc to be rebuilt as well, but > > it never is.. > > Maybe once a little more work is done to "localize" the contents of > /etc a bit more, I'll endorse this idea. > > Right now, however, there are a few too many /etc files that are often > locally hacked and for which I wouldn't want to see the local changes > go away. A successful automated merge would also take someone writing > a script smart enough to do the job safely and reliably every single > time, something I'm not going to hold my breath on - it's hard. I agree with Jordan. The data needs to be better divorced from the implementation. There is too much information encoded in the /etc directory file contents that should really be elsewhere to allow automatic update to not shoot you in the foot (or crotch). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.