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Date:      Fri, 8 Oct 2004 19:30:06 -0500
From:      "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net>
To:        Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: What we keep under /etc (was: cvs commit: src/etc rc rc.shutdown src/etc/rc.d ...)
Message-ID:  <20041009003006.GO49914@over-yonder.net>
In-Reply-To: <20041009002051.GA20265@odin.ac.hmc.edu>
References:  <200410071355.i97DtSJq024575@repoman.freebsd.org> <20041009011553.01708de1@dev.lan.Awfulhak.org> <20041009002051.GA20265@odin.ac.hmc.edu>

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On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 05:20:51PM -0700 I heard the voice of
Brooks Davis, and lo! it spake thus:
> On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 01:15:53AM +0100, Brian Somers wrote:
> > 
> > This makes life painful enough to ask....
> 
> As long as you don't actually modify the scripts you can just do an
> "rm /etc/rc.d/*" and run mergemaster with -i.  It's a whole lot less
> painful that way.

I often manually 'make install' in some parts of src/etc/ (periodic
comes to mind) with lots of files that I don't mess with, just to cut
back on the noise in mergemaster.


-- 
Matthew Fuller     (MF4839)   |  fullermd@over-yonder.net
Systems/Network Administrator |  http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/

"The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I
      haven't figured out how to light the middle yet"



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