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

Colin Percival cperciva at freebsd.org
Wed Dec 5 07:43:13 PST 2007


Max Laier wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 December 2007, Colin Percival wrote:
>> John Baldwin wrote:
>>> 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. :-(
> 
> 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?

That is, in effect, what FreeBSD Update does -- the upgrade can always
be rolled back (and /etc/pf.conf recovered) by "freebsd-update rollback".

Colin Percival



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