Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 10:16:33 +0100 From: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> To: Garance A Drosehn <gad@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: "Chatty" config files in /etc Message-ID: <20060901091633.GK34880@submonkey.net> In-Reply-To: <p0623091ec11bdac4f347@[128.113.24.47]> References: <200608290920.k7T9KmV9067843@repoman.freebsd.org> <86zmdmfoow.fsf@dwp.des.no> <p0623091cc11b704fff62@[128.113.24.47]> <20060830202834.GA11284@rambler-co.ru> <20060830192456.2497b4bd.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> <p0623091ec11bdac4f347@[128.113.24.47]>
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On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 08:42:19PM -0400, Garance A Drosehn wrote:
> On Aug 30/06, Tom Rhodes asks the reasonable question:
> >On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 00:28:34 +0400
> >Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 01:41:51PM -0400, Garance A Drosehn wrote:
> > > >
> >> > I do think those comments and examples are useful, but it might be
> > > > better to move those lines into separate files.
> > >
> > > I think they should be moved to /usr/share/examples/etc/ (like
> >> make.conf), with files in /etc/ representing good (short) defaults
> > > with a minimum of comments and probably references to examples.
> >
> >Question is, what files will be moved? All configuration files
> >or just "some" ?
>=20
> I would not move "all" of them. I think the proper rule would be
> "Split up the ones which constantly annoy me when they change".
> Obviously that's a rather subjective criteria...
> These are files which have "too many" helpful comments or examples
> in them, and which I have to modify on every single machine I ever
> bring up. So *every* time one of these changes, I have to stop and
> stare at the diff in the mergemaster step, and 99% of the time the
> change is just to fix or improve some comment. And in many cases,
> the change is to some line that I remove in my custom copy. Now
> all of those changes seem to be good changes, but they are still
> an annoyance when it comes to merging in my local changes.
The "correct" way to deal with that is via MM_PRE_COMPARE_SCRIPT in
mergemaster.rc.
Ceri
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That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all.
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