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Date:      Sat, 12 Dec 2009 22:12:54 +0100
From:      "Wojciech A. Koszek" <wkoszek@freebsd.org>
To:        Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Alex Keda <admin@lissyara.su>, freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: May be include in GENERIC option INCLUDE_CONFIG_FILE?
Message-ID:  <20091212211254.GA78318@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <4B23FBA1.4070002@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <4B23F10F.1010608@lissyara.su> <4B23FBA1.4070002@FreeBSD.org>

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On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 12:22:57PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote:
> Alex Keda wrote:
> > For those who have recently engaged in FreeBSD, and inexperienced
> > managers who have inherited a server "by inheritance" is often the
> > question arises - where to find the configuration file in which to
> > compile your kernel? (Of course, a file by that time there =))
> 
> I actually thought that was already done, but I see now that it's not.
> I would like to see this as well, any objections?
> 
> 

Alex, Doug,

In the past, I got two kinds of responses to this question:

1) "OK" from most of the people

>From the kernel via config(8) you can get a ready-to-use configuration file,
but without comments.

2) "We don't like new INCLUDE_CONFIG_FILE, since it doesn't support comments,
and comments are crucial"

We'd have to add "-C" to config(8) execution in build scripts, the
same preserving the old way of keeping comments, but without getting 
ready-to-use configuration file.

My vote is for (1)

Thanks,

-- 
Wojciech A. Koszek
wkoszek@FreeBSD.org
http://FreeBSD.czest.pl/~wkoszek/



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