Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 19:44:25 -0500 (EST) From: Dan Janowski <danj@3skel.com> To: eivind@yes.no, jkh@time.cdrom.com Cc: FreeBSD-Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG, Studded@dal.net Subject: Re: Discussion about script to update /etc, etc. Message-ID: <199803200044.TAA04352@fnur.3skel.com>
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> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> > > > Jordan - what's the chance of automatically getting a pristine copy of > > the /etc directory stored along the actual one, for later upgrades? > > Just making sysinstall copy all files in /etc into /etc/pristine on > > initial install should make good upgrades much easier... > > Hmmmmm. I don't like this. I think we need to simply bite the bullet > and make the user-mutable parts of the /etc configuration template > based, as Paul Traina first suggested about, oh, 2 years ago. :-) > > Any takers? > > Jordan By what do we mean template based? I have a running M4 based system that does rc.conf, uucp, ppp, and a bunch of other crap. I have also (a long time ago) made a mechanism oriented around a /etc/config directory similar to the IRIX 'chkconfig' mechanism. What form would templates take? Dan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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