Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 11:37:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Steve VanDevender <stevev@darkwing.uoregon.edu> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> Cc: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>, "Brandon D. Valentine" <bandix@looksharp.net>, FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: sendmail.mc Message-ID: <14583.25974.124276.202895@darkwing.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <38F75E62.C8F36817@newsguy.com> References: <E12fRXk-000FxI-00@rip.psg.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004121700090.11683-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> <E12fVK5-000JvU-00@rip.psg.com> <38F6265B.F1B436F0@newsguy.com> <E12fqVG-0001P1-00@rip.psg.com> <38F6DBE1.C6BDB148@newsguy.com> <14583.23046.787588.254947@darkwing.uoregon.edu> <38F75E62.C8F36817@newsguy.com>
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Daniel C. Sobral writes: > And you can do it too with FreeBSD. It requires that you install the > source. Sure, it's bigger than what Solaris have, but we offer much > more. As I said, we do things different. If you are going to pick on the > amount of source code you must install, I'll pick on the ability to > rebuild the whole system. You're definitely vindicating my decision to keep a separate copy of the sendmail source tree _outside_ the FreeBSD hierarchy, so I don't have to worry about how your install procedures are going to trash my work. The point here is not whether or not I can rebuild or restore the system customizations I've made; the point is that doing the FreeBSD update eliminated an existing customized configuration that was pretty important. Fortunately I know enough to be paranoid and keep copies of things where the OS is not likely to stomp on them. But frankly I've seen both Solaris and Digital UNIX do a better job of not wiping out system customizations during OS updates and patch installs than FreeBSD did here. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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