From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 7 2:23:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0B4C37B400 for ; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 02:23:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.69.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2219343E72 for ; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 02:23:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk ([IPv6:::1]) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g779NMFo033081; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 10:23:22 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: (from matthew@localhost) by happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g779NGx8033080; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 10:23:16 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 10:23:16 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman To: Desmond Lee Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: where did make.conf go? Message-ID: <20020807092316.GE31679@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 10:45:50PM -0700, Desmond Lee wrote: > So, i execute 'mergemaster -p' and it says that the /etc/group and > /etc/master.passwd files are good, but it says it can't find /etc/make.conf. > Should i just use /etc/default/make.conf? That is actually one of the few files that you can just copy out of /etc/defaults to /etc and not come to grief. If you look at /etc/defaults/make.conf, you'll see that all the entries are actually commented out: they're just there to document what's available. It also means that you could just create an empty file for /etc/make.conf without ill effects, but it's more usual to put some local configuration in there. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way Tel: +44 1628 476614 Marlow Fax: +44 0870 0522645 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message