RFC: etcupdate tool in base?

Lawrence Stewart lstewart at freebsd.org
Fri Jun 11 00:45:14 UTC 2010


On 06/11/10 03:46, John Baldwin wrote:
> I've had several folks ask me recently about importing etcupdate
> (http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/etcupdate) into the base system as an alternate
> tool for updating /etc during upgrades.  Do folks have any strong objections
> to doing so?  More details about how it works and an HTML version of the
> manpage can be found at the URL above.
>

+1 for adding to base (and updating handbook chapters "makeworld.html" 
and "small-lan.html", plus maybe /usr/src/Makefile and an UPDATING entry).

Cheers,
Lawrence


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