svn commit: r334617 - in head: . etc

[Eugene Grosbein]

06.06.2018 1:26, Konstantin Belousov wrote:

>>> I find it often very useful to do
>>> 	(cd src/etc/rc.d && make install)
>>> Same for defaults and several other directories which in fact contains
>>> non-editable content.  Is this planned to keep working ?
>>
>> The short answer is, no.  All rc.d scripts get moved to the src of the program they start.
>>
>> That said, if there is a big need for this, we can see about options to keep them working.
>>
>> What are you trying to accomplish when you do this?  Just verify the rc.d scripts match your src tree?
> 
> I avoid mergemaster/etcupdate and whatever else. rc.d and /etc/rc,
> /etc/rc.subr /etc/rc.network are not suitable to etc, they are binaries
> provided by the project not for the user editing.
> 
> When upgrading the host, esp. on HEAD, i usually refresh scripts by this
> procedure and avoid any editing and implied conflict resolution for real
> configs.
> 
> Not being able to easily install clean copies of these scripts would
> be very inconvenient and time consuming.

I found that "mergemaster -iFUP" deals with unchanged files including mentioned rc* scripts just fine.
That is, it automatically refreshes unchanged files without any silly questions just for change of $FreeBSD$.