Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 23:17:37 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: Anton Berezin <tobez@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: beating mergemaster to /etc/rc.d Message-ID: <200501122317.44517.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20050112115954.GB68344@heechee.tobez.org> References: <16749.21420.643438.983797@ran.psg.com> <20050112105034.GA51959@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> <20050112115954.GB68344@heechee.tobez.org>
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--nextPart1519589.c9QQFITtb6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 22:29, Anton Berezin wrote: > > Note that there are still risks in blindly applying CVS changes. There > > have been a couple of cases where defaults have changed meaning that > > corresponding changes to local system configuration is required to > > retain previous behaviour. > > Yeah, the possibility to shoot yourself if the foot is always there. On > the other hand, I would expect that 1) changes in defaults should be in > UPDATING, and 2) most people qi<enter> such files (say, for > /etc/defaults/rc.conf) without looking too closely into the actual > diffs. Those default changes are always (or should always be :) UPDATING fodder.. *cough*etcmerge*cough* :) =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart1519589.c9QQFITtb6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBB5Rxw5ZPcIHs/zowRAnQrAKCfDWY+zVG1QPvmGrjRH93WM2RmSACgiwQx Zf9XcHGcFeFdSODFJEbO53s= =j5uW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1519589.c9QQFITtb6--
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