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Date:      Wed, 05 Apr 2000 16:00:43 -0500
From:      "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <jeff-ml@mountin.net>
To:        Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>, J McKitrick <jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ppp problems under 4.0-S
Message-ID:  <4.3.2.20000405153609.00b2c100@207.227.119.2>
In-Reply-To: <20000405102339.A3267@orion.ac.hmc.edu>
References:  <20000405154542.C13658@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <38EAACEF.C573F72@ucdavis.edu> <38EA7621.48F887A5@ucdavis.edu> <20000405034833.A11271@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <38EAACEF.C573F72@ucdavis.edu> <20000405041046.B11271@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <4.3.2.20000405054845.00b83c20@207.227.119.2> <20000405154542.C13658@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>

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At 10:23 AM 4/5/00 -0700, Brooks Davis wrote:
>On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 03:45:42PM +0100, J McKitrick wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 06:10:44AM -0500, Jeffrey J. Mountin wrote:
> > > Sometimes it is worth while to run *before* building.  Recent 
> additions to
> > > make.conf are a good, recent example.  Along the same line is updating
> > > files in etc via mm and not rebuilding the rest of the system.  Recent
> > > changes in pccard.conf.sample as an example.  Can they make a 
> difference, yes.
> >
> > What do you mean here?  What changed in pccard.conf?
>
>In current, pccard.conf.sample was copied to /etc/defaults/pccard.conf.
>A new include directive was added to pccardd so
>/etc/defaults/pccard.conf reads /etc/pccard.conf for local overrides
>like with rc.conf and defaults/rc.conf.

Was referring to the re-ordering.  The changes you mention have not been 
MFC'd (yet).  A better example would have been the re-ordering in 
rc.network for entropy reasons and later sshd's keygen.  At the time there 
were so many changes requiring a rebuild.  If, however, they was the only 
changes, a simple merge would work just fine.

When NO_X and NO_FORTRAN were added to make.conf I merged before the 
build.  Not something done often, but I do keep track of changes.  Waiting 
for NO_UUCP to MFC. 8-)

My point is that you don't have to rebuild the entire system, should keep 
track of commits, and if your problem is more than 2 hours old, update 
source and try again.  Saying 2 hours is a bit facetious.  However, it is 
possible to only receive part of a large commit.

Track your branch and *all* commits.  Real simple to search and check for 
updates or fixes and the mail (usually) comes *before* you see the source 
on the servers.  Brian is always busy working on PP and if you watch 
commits to -current, then your fix may just be an MFC away.


Jeff Mountin - jeff@mountin.net
Systems/Network Administrator
FreeBSD - the power to serve



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