Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 15:10:17 +0100 From: Nik.Clayton@iii.co.uk To: Conrad Sabatier <conrads@neosoft.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "saver" Message-ID: <19970721151017.19441@iii.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.970721072404.conrads@neosoft.com>; from Conrad Sabatier on Mon, Jul 21, 1997 at 07:24:04AM -0500 References: <26966.869480270@time.cdrom.com> <XFMail.970721072404.conrads@neosoft.com>
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On Mon, Jul 21, 1997 at 07:24:04AM -0500, Conrad Sabatier wrote:
> Well, this thread certainly does help to illustrate some of the confusion
> that can result during an upgrade re: /etc. :-)
Yep. Been there, done that.
> OK, shoot me if this sounds terribly simplistic or heretical, but why not
> have the install part of "make world" actually do just that -- install all
> the files in /etc that are supposed to be installed to have a functioning
> system?
Take a look through
http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/upgrade/upgrade.html
and see the steps that need to be done to *properly* upgrade /etc.
> It would be a simple matter to either rename the old /etc files to say,
> *.old, or to install the new versions as *.new. Or perhaps even create a
> whole new directory, say, /etc.new.
Replacing steps 4.x in the above tutorial?
That wouldn't be too hard.
> Can anyone think of why this would be a Bad Idea?
Not particularly. I'd prepare patches myself, except I don't currently have
an accessible FreeBSD machine.
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