Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 03:26:11 -0700 (PDT) From: asami@freebsd.org (Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami) To: obrien@NUXI.com Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: **HEADS UP** newsyslog.conf syntax change Message-ID: <199906281026.DAA52131@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: <19990628031811.B14773@dragon.nuxi.com> (obrien@NUXI.com) References: <19990627201956.A1998@dragon.nuxi.com> <199906280937.CAA51900@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> <19990628031811.B14773@dragon.nuxi.com>
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* From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com> * > Please first change it to accept both syntaxes, with a warning in the * > manpage that the old one will go away in the future. Then remove the * > old syntax after a few months. * * How about we leave it this way in -CURRENT, and the MFC will act in the * above way. This will give people the remaining lifetime of 3.x (1,2,3? * more releases) to convert. For those running -CURRENT... well they are * supose to take heed of "HEADS UP" messages. Well that will work for me, but I still think it is nicer to do it in a two-step way, so that people don't neccesarily have to convert it right between the make world and reboot. The way I work is, I see the HEADS UP message, edit the setup files so that it will be correct after the next make world or reboot, then forget about it. (Note that if the change is completely backward-incompatible, you can't edit the files right away unless you are sure you aren't going to reboot the machine before the next make world....) Of course, since this is a program that is compilable by itself, I can cvs update usr.sbin/newsyslog and make all install there and change newsyslog.conf now. So I guess it's ok, but you may want to send out another message saying that it's probably safer to rebuild newsyslog and edit newsyslog.conf right now rather than trying to remember doing it right with the next make world. Satoshi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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