Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 16:35:07 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: julian@ref.tfs.com, nate@sri.MT.net, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: What do folks think of the following patch? Message-ID: <199604222335.QAA18150@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <9830.830195506@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Apr 22, 96 10:51:46 am
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> > I would like a make world to also install etc if the DESTDIR is not / > > I often make images of systems and want /etc to be rebuilt as well, but > > it never is.. > > Maybe once a little more work is done to "localize" the contents of > /etc a bit more, I'll endorse this idea. > > Right now, however, there are a few too many /etc files that are often > locally hacked and for which I wouldn't want to see the local changes > go away. A successful automated merge would also take someone writing > a script smart enough to do the job safely and reliably every single > time, something I'm not going to hold my breath on - it's hard. I agree with Jordan. The data needs to be better divorced from the implementation. There is too much information encoded in the /etc directory file contents that should really be elsewhere to allow automatic update to not shoot you in the foot (or crotch). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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