Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 13:17:31 -0800 From: Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: missing .cshrc and pf.conf after upgrade to 7.0-beta3 Message-ID: <4755C3EB.8010108@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200711291451.47268.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <47436A80.30306@quip.cz> <474DC5BF.7010405@freebsd.org> <200711291451.47268.jhb@freebsd.org>
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John Baldwin wrote: > On Wednesday 28 November 2007 02:47:11 pm Colin Percival wrote: >> Miroslav Lachman wrote: >>> I am not 100% sure, maybe I overlook something in binary major version >>> upgrade procedure, but after upgrade from 6.2 to 7.0-BETA3 my roots >>> ~/.cshrc was "accidentally" replaced with dist version of .cshrc and >>> /etc/pf.conf is missing. >> The fact that /etc/pf.conf disappeared is due to it being removed from >> the release (it is now in /usr/share/examples/etc). The fact that /.cshrc >> was upgraded in spite of having been locally modified is probably a bad >> idea -- I'll change the default freebsd-update.conf to deal with this. > > Considering that /etc/pf.conf is a file that users edit to configure pf(4), > removing it out from under them is probably a very bad idea. The heuristics didn't work this time. :-( FreeBSD Update tries to guess what users want to have done -- in this case, the heuristic is "if a configuration file is present in release X but not in release Y, it's probably not relevant in release Y; so let's delete it". The case of a default configuration file being moved from /etc/ into /usr/share/examples/etc is one which I didn't consider; but I think the general heuristic is a good one (consider the scenario where a /etc/foo.conf is renamed to /etc/food.conf -- with the current heuristic, at least the user gets a warning that the file is disappearing rather than suddenly finding that the foo daemon isn't starting up properly for no apparent reason). Colin Percivalhome | help
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