From owner-freebsd-current Tue Nov 2 10: 3:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.100.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5BF514DB2 for ; Tue, 2 Nov 1999 10:03:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA75282; Tue, 2 Nov 1999 13:03:03 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <381F1B08.AF4E0585@gorean.org> References: <199910271928.MAA35915@apollo.backplane.com> <381F1722.3F85DA1@simplenet.com> <199911021703.JAA51793@apollo.backplane.com> <381F1B08.AF4E0585@gorean.org> Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1999 13:04:25 -0500 To: Doug Barton , Matthew Dillon From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: minor heads up - /etc/make.conf{,.local} being moved Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 9:10 AM -0800 11/2/99, Doug Barton wrote: >Matthew Dillon wrote: > > I think it is necessary to make it exit for now, because what we are > > really doing is a net-0 gain in files... turning what used to be > > functionality in /etc/make.conf.local into /etc/make.conf. The > > intent is not to add a third file. > > Ok, well put me on record as wanting three files. Sounds like it would be fine to have three files, you just shouldn't use /etc/make.conf.local as the name of that third file. Your site's own /etc/make.conf (with "local to your site" changes) could include logic to pick up "machine-specific" settings via some other filename. Maybe /etc/make.conf.hostname, or /etc/hostdefs/make.conf I'm not quite sure what filename is best, I'm just saying that you should be able to get the flexibility you want even though we "choke" on /etc/make.conf.local (just to catch those people who don't realize these first two files have been moved around) --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message