Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2000 15:24:39 +0200 From: Thomas Bader <thomasb@trash.net> To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Chapter ``18.4.7. Update /etc'' in the handbook Message-ID: <20000806152439.A18638@trash.net>
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Hi! To merge the new /etc-files, I did the following: cp -Rp /etc /etc.old mkdir /var/tmp/root cd /usr/src/etc make DESTDIR=3D/var/tmp/root distrib-dirs distribution cd /var/tmp/root diff -r etc /etc | less This way I can see, which files have changed and I can copy or merge them to /etc. This is much easier then making a timestamp in /var/tmp/root every time a "make world" is performed and one can do this even if he has not did it before and therefore has no /var/tmp/root with a timestamp. And, finally, it is much easier then do a diff for each file manually. Couldn't be that mentioned in the handbook? Thomas --=20 .-. Thomas Bader =B7 thomasb@trash.net.remove =B7 http://www.t-bader.ch= / .-. oo| o= o| /`'\ Einen Unix-Shellaccount gibt es unter http://www.trash.net/ /`= '\ (\_;/) PGP Key-ID: 0x3A4B7F5D (RSA) 0x7584F5D8 (DSA/EG) (\_= ;/) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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