From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 10 19:36:16 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3144D106564A; Thu, 10 Jun 2010 19:36:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhellenthal@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pw0-f54.google.com (mail-pw0-f54.google.com [209.85.160.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB9378FC14; Thu, 10 Jun 2010 19:36:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pwj1 with SMTP id 1so164006pwj.13 for ; Thu, 10 Jun 2010 12:36:15 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:sender:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :x-enigmail-version:openpgp:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=tWF8VfjUvwnAOrs3D/czZK2lsB1Wdt/ezgBqCwOyMJk=; b=pkoFLz23Rey2c7QWHmNEZwsNJ0CCjTj7GbKhUla21+swd4us39sL2BI2vJOXZ8tsPO y4Abac3lqOw7S2rJbih02gxLZAAkHMXr3x1RrZiUrWgRwzs0eUP/alHOS2OsFNrP31Ci bAbsBqFHv3PxnVrOXRKHQwf3asPGfqFfDppN4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:openpgp:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=toXmAoWSkFoBJ5z6RL0zR+AP9lyOfY3KNReS8qD3WfaB5EglgSspmF23N1cQ7Sp6Ou /7SAstFJgxNoPH1t1Ft+Uz8SRMCI1ngApGIVxw8iG4rVT2wMFGH9GyWq2ZN6Y5ld3Gpo yG3fTxMGzmuFFJCj4ZQ+kaJ7tWaBREVgfMEnc= Received: by 10.142.210.19 with SMTP id i19mr459947wfg.301.1276198574684; Thu, 10 Jun 2010 12:36:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from centel.dataix.local (adsl-99-181-128-180.dsl.klmzmi.sbcglobal.net [99.181.128.180]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id y15sm204640wfd.10.2010.06.10.12.36.12 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 10 Jun 2010 12:36:13 -0700 (PDT) Sender: "J. Hellenthal" Message-ID: <4C113EAB.3090303@dataix.net> Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:36:11 -0400 From: jhell User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100515 Thunderbird MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Baldwin References: <201006101346.59824.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <201006101346.59824.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 OpenPGP: id=89D8547E Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC: etcupdate tool in base? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 19:36:16 -0000 On 06/10/2010 13:46, John Baldwin wrote: > I've had several folks ask me recently about importing etcupdate > (http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/etcupdate) into the base system as an alternate > tool for updating /etc during upgrades. Do folks have any strong objections > to doing so? More details about how it works and an HTML version of the > manpage can be found at the URL above. > Though I love the idea, I think the proper approach "please dont get me wrong" would be to move it into /usr/src/tools/ somewhere and create a makefile that when run just creates a symlink to it in a predetermined directory allowing folks to not really have it installed yet still update it for critical fixes while they are found without a re-install of it. MIB: +1 year Regards, -- jhell