6.0 on Alpha

[Ruslan Ermilov]

On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 07:49:14PM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote:
> Ruslan Ermilov <ru at freebsd.org> writes:
> > But I specifically made the "distribution" target in
> > src/etc/Makefile install the device.hints file, in a hope that
> > mergemaster(8) will pick it up.  Is it not the case?
> 
> Yup.  Could you please do the same with loader.rc?  It's currently the
> only file in the system that is never updated by world or mergemaster.
> 
Not the only file actually.  I've spoken with dcs@ many times
about /boot/loader.rc, and he insists to keep it "not updated
if it already exists".

> > Ah, it looks like mergemaster(8) only cares about updating /etc,
> > which is bad.  :-(
> 
> wrong, mergemaster handles /boot/device.hints just fine.
> 
Ah, right:

: cd "${TEMPROOT}"
: ...
: for COMPFILE in `find . -type f -size +0`; do

Sorry for the false alarm.


Cheers,
-- 
Ruslan Ermilov
ru at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer
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