missing .cshrc and pf.conf after upgrade to 7.0-beta3

[Max Laier]

On Tuesday 04 December 2007, Colin Percival wrote:
> John Baldwin wrote:
> > On Wednesday 28 November 2007 02:47:11 pm Colin Percival wrote:
> >> Miroslav Lachman wrote:
> >>> I am not 100% sure, maybe I overlook something in binary major
> >>> version upgrade procedure, but after upgrade from 6.2 to 7.0-BETA3
> >>> my roots ~/.cshrc was "accidentally" replaced with dist version of
> >>> .cshrc and /etc/pf.conf is missing.
> >>
> >> The fact that /etc/pf.conf disappeared is due to it being removed
> >> from the release (it is now in /usr/share/examples/etc).  The fact
> >> that /.cshrc was upgraded in spite of having been locally modified
> >> is probably a bad idea -- I'll change the default
> >> freebsd-update.conf to deal with this.
> >
> > Considering that /etc/pf.conf is a file that users edit to configure
> > pf(4), removing it out from under them is probably a very bad idea.
>
> The heuristics didn't work this time. :-(
>
> FreeBSD Update tries to guess what users want to have done -- in this
> case, the heuristic is "if a configuration file is present in release X
> but not in release Y, it's probably not relevant in release Y; so let's
> delete it". The case of a default configuration file being moved from
> /etc/ into /usr/share/examples/etc is one which I didn't consider; but
> I think the general heuristic is a good one (consider the scenario
> where a /etc/foo.conf is renamed to /etc/food.conf -- with the current
> heuristic, at least the user gets a warning that the file is
> disappearing rather than suddenly finding that the foo daemon isn't
> starting up properly for no apparent reason).

Yet they lose the configuration changes they might have applied to the 
original foo.conf.  I don't think you should delete files that have 
changed.  Maybe moving them somewhere for future reference would be the 
best thing to do?

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