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Date:      Tue, 9 Nov 1999 11:38:04 +0200
From:      Yiorgos Adamopoulos <adamo@dblab.ece.ntua.gr>
To:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: sysinstall bug?
Message-ID:  <19991109113804.A28229@dblab.ece.ntua.gr>
In-Reply-To: <199911090252.DAA19021@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>; from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de on Tue, Nov 09, 1999 at 03:52:26AM %2B0100
References:  <199911090252.DAA19021@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>

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On Tue, Nov 09, 1999 at 03:52:26AM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> Now my question is:  Isn't sysinstall supposed to look for
> existing entries in /etc/rc.conf and _replace_ them, instead

That would be one way of doing things.

> of always appending?  What purpose does that "generated deltas"
> line have?  Did we do anything wrong?

Well, the nice thing with the way sysinstall works now is that you have a
history of changes in /etc/rc.conf.  Much like the way you do when you change
it by hand (you do comment changes, don't you? ;-)

I do not thing it is a mistake/bug, rather it is a deliberate design feature.

What it lacks is an option that can "compress" it to a "normal" size with no
duplicate keys.  Which makes me wonder:  Couldn't rc.conf get generated by
something like a NEWDB map?

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Yiorgos Adamopoulos <adamo@ieee.org>


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