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Date:      Wed, 3 Oct 2007 02:22:33 +0000
From:      "Aryeh Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com>
To:        "Wes Morgan" <morganw@chemikals.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: small purposal for change in installworld
Message-ID:  <bef9a7920710021922v6842b6ffj51a00f630d321500@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.0.9999.0710022110410.7454@ibyngvyr.purzvxnyf.bet>
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On 10/3/07, Wes Morgan <morganw@chemikals.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Aryeh Friedman wrote:
>
> > Installworld shouldn't clobber the supfiles in
> > /usr/share/example/cvsup... having to change the default host after
> > every build/install world is annoying
>
> I'm pretty sure that the base system installed in /usr is not intended to
> be altered by the admins, and should never need to be. Just like the
> things such as the GENERIC kernel config files, the /etc/rc* scripts,
> /etc/defaults and other files in /usr/share/examples.
>
> You've been using FreeBSD for over a decade and you just now ran into this
> problem?
>

 No just got annoying enough now that I have become the test case for
my hw (in that decade except for initial config everything ran great
[but I always bought machines that were a generation or 2 old except
this time]).



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