svn commit: r224674 - head/etc

[Doug Barton]

On 8/7/2011 6:05 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Simon L. B. Nielsen <simon at nitro.dk> wrote:
>>
>> On 6 Aug 2011, at 11:16, Doug Barton wrote:
>>
>>> Author: dougb
>>> Date: Sat Aug  6 09:16:53 2011
>>> New Revision: 224674
>>> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/224674
>>>
>>> Log:
>>>  Rather than edit the nsswitch.conf file based on ${MK_NIS} == "no"
>>>  comment out the NIS _compat options by default, but leave them in
>>>  the file for the convenience of users who want to enable it.
>>>
>>>  Update the comment in the file accordingly.
>>
>> This disables NIS by default which is rather surprising considering there has been no prior (which I have been able to find) discussion of this.
>>
>> At the _VERY_ least people need to be warned about this loudly. Unless you can show this really helps non-NIS users this is IMO a bad idea.
>>
>> Yes, if you hand merge all /etc files this won't be a problem... but I don't since life's to short for that, so this change just broke login on one of the FreeBSD.org during an upgrade.

mergemaster has been in the tree for almost 12 years now. :)  In any
case, I can't think of a situation where blindly copying new files to
/etc is a good idea (with all due respect).

> non-POLA changes are bad, and this _definitely_ deserves an UPDATING
> entry and/or further discussion.

I'm happy to ask for permission to do the UPDATING entry, do you have
suggestions for the text?


Doug

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