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Date:      Wed, 05 Dec 2007 07:43:07 -0800
From:      Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org>
To:        Max Laier <max@love2party.net>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: missing .cshrc and pf.conf after upgrade to 7.0-beta3
Message-ID:  <4756C70B.2050400@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <200712051353.13065.max@love2party.net>
References:  <47436A80.30306@quip.cz> <200711291451.47268.jhb@freebsd.org> <4755C3EB.8010108@freebsd.org> <200712051353.13065.max@love2party.net>

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Max Laier wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 December 2007, Colin Percival wrote:
>> John Baldwin wrote:
>>> Considering that /etc/pf.conf is a file that users edit to configure
>>> pf(4), removing it out from under them is probably a very bad idea.
>>
>> The heuristics didn't work this time. :-(
> 
> Yet they lose the configuration changes they might have applied to the 
> original foo.conf.  I don't think you should delete files that have 
> changed.  Maybe moving them somewhere for future reference would be the 
> best thing to do?

That is, in effect, what FreeBSD Update does -- the upgrade can always
be rolled back (and /etc/pf.conf recovered) by "freebsd-update rollback".

Colin Percival




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