small purposal for change in installworld

Aryeh Friedman aryeh.friedman at gmail.com
Tue Oct 2 19:22:35 PDT 2007


On 10/3/07, Wes Morgan <morganw at chemikals.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Aryeh Friedman wrote:
>
> > Installworld shouldn't clobber the supfiles in
> > /usr/share/example/cvsup... having to change the default host after
> > every build/install world is annoying
>
> I'm pretty sure that the base system installed in /usr is not intended to
> be altered by the admins, and should never need to be. Just like the
> things such as the GENERIC kernel config files, the /etc/rc* scripts,
> /etc/defaults and other files in /usr/share/examples.
>
> You've been using FreeBSD for over a decade and you just now ran into this
> problem?
>

 No just got annoying enough now that I have become the test case for
my hw (in that decade except for initial config everything ran great
[but I always bought machines that were a generation or 2 old except
this time]).


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