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Date:      Thu, 29 Nov 2007 14:51:46 -0500
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Cc:        Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz>, Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: missing .cshrc and pf.conf after upgrade to 7.0-beta3
Message-ID:  <200711291451.47268.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <474DC5BF.7010405@freebsd.org>
References:  <47436A80.30306@quip.cz> <474DC5BF.7010405@freebsd.org>

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On Wednesday 28 November 2007 02:47:11 pm Colin Percival wrote:
> Miroslav Lachman wrote:
> > I am not 100% sure, maybe I overlook something in binary major version
> > upgrade procedure, but after upgrade from 6.2 to 7.0-BETA3 my roots
> > ~/.cshrc was "accidentally" replaced with dist version of .cshrc and
> > /etc/pf.conf is missing.
> 
> The fact that /etc/pf.conf disappeared is due to it being removed from
> the release (it is now in /usr/share/examples/etc).  The fact that /.cshrc
> was upgraded in spite of having been locally modified is probably a bad
> idea -- I'll change the default freebsd-update.conf to deal with this.

Considering that /etc/pf.conf is a file that users edit to configure pf(4),
removing it out from under them is probably a very bad idea.

-- 
John Baldwin



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