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Date:      Mon, 11 Oct 2004 15:02:52 +0900
From:      Makoto Matsushita <matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org>
To:        obrien@FreeBSD.org, brian@Awfulhak.org
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: What we keep under /etc (was: cvs commit: src/etc rc rc.shutdown src/etc/rc.d ...)
Message-ID:  <20041011150252M.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20041011001228.GA9460@dragon.nuxi.com>
References:  <20041009184627.26e9a57f@dev.lan.Awfulhak.org> <20041010031208L.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> <20041011001228.GA9460@dragon.nuxi.com>

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obrien> Is this something you could generalize and embelish -- adding an
obrien> /etc/perodic.conf knob for?

It could be a hard one, since there's several (complex) pattern to
trim, using an interim working(temporary) file.

obrien> Also, if you do 'make installworld' on this machine (since
obrien> this is what we're talking about); you can also just make the
obrien> change to /usr/src/etc/periodic/security/security.function.

Someone said before that 'if that's ok, why not installing all /etc
files by default -- you can easily manage your account on
/usr/src/etc/master.passwd.'  How do you answer? :-)  The filename
doesn't matter, same story can be applied to /etc/syslog.conf.

obrien> I would almost think this is a better way, as you can (cd
obrien> /usr/src ; cvs diff) and get a list of all the customization
obrien> you've done.

It seems that you just forget users using cvsup(1) to have their
/usr/src tree (not copying a CVS repository, just extracting files).
Yes _I_ am ok with "cvs diff," but sadly to say that not all people
are using cvs...

-- -
Makoto `MAR' Matsushita



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