Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 21:02:06 -0800 (PST) From: asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi Asami) To: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com Cc: jkh@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc netstart pccard_ether rc rc.devfs rc.diskless2 rc.firewall Message-ID: <199902110502.VAA83412@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: <47297.918699020@zippy.cdrom.com> (jkh@zippy.cdrom.com)
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* > Wouldn't it be better to have an almost-empty /etc/rc.conf pull in * > /etc/defaults/rc.conf and /etc/rc.conf.local? That way users can * * Nope! If the user installs their old rc.conf from backup, as they may * have been doing for every upgrade previous to this one, it will * destroy the linkage. We thought about this. :) Well, it would work for the variables that stayed the same, and not for the ones that have changed. Which is exactly the same behavior they would have gotten in the old paradigm if they splatted their own /etc/rc.conf over the new one without examining the new one first. (I'd say those people deserve whatever breakage it causes. ;) I still don't like the idea of the "defaults" file sourcing the user-tunable file. It just doesn't sound...right. Satoshi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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