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Date:      Wed, 22 Feb 1995 14:02:24 -0600
From:      rkw@dataplex.net (Richard Wackerbarth)
To:        Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Building /etc
Message-ID:  <v02110103ab71455992c3@[199.183.109.242]>
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How about keeping a reference set of files that you change.
/etc/somefile.example

Install procedure:

if exists somefile.example then
    if exists somefile.example.old then
        rm somefile.example
    else
        mv somefile.example somefile.example.old
    end
    install somefile as somefile.example
else
    install somefile as somefile
end

That way somefile.example is a "flag" that somefile has been locally changed.
And somefile.example.old is a "flag" that you need to examine the new changes.

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Richard Wackerbarth
rkw@dataplex.net

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