From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 28 17:11:26 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC9AB106566C for ; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:11:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from dirg.bris.ac.uk (dirg.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.102]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA1778FC1D for ; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:11:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ncsc.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.10.41]) by dirg.bris.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NaXtt-000477-IX; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:11:25 +0000 Received: from mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.187.241]) by ncsc.bris.ac.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1NaXtt-000245-E2; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:11:25 +0000 Received: from mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o0SHBPLZ085266; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:11:25 GMT (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: (from mexas@localhost) by mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id o0SHBPmE085265; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:11:25 GMT (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) X-Authentication-Warning: mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk: mexas set sender to mexas@bristol.ac.uk using -f Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:11:25 +0000 From: Anton Shterenlikht To: utisoft@gmail.com Message-ID: <20100128171124.GF60207@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <20100128165916.GD60207@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Cc: Anton Shterenlikht , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make doesn't see changes in /etc/mail/freebsd.mc X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:11:27 -0000 On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 05:03:26PM +0000, Chris Rees wrote: > On 28 January 2010 16:59, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > I've seen this behaviour for years, but never bothered > > to ask why. > > > > Imagine I already have in /etc/mail local .mc and .cf > > files. Imagine I then update freebsd.mc. When I run make > > nothing happens. What I think should happen is that > > local .mc should be updated and then .cf generated. > > > > Because of this behaviour I have to manually delete > > local .mc files and all .cf files before running make. > > > > Any comments? > > > > many thanks > > anton > > > > Because your carefully crafted local .mc files shouldn't be clobbered > whenever freebsd.mc is updated? I see.. so you are saying that freebsd.mc shouldn't even be touched at all, all local chages should be made straight to local .mc? thank you -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423