svn commit: r334617 - in head: . etc

[Brad Davis]

On Tue, Jun 5, 2018, at 1:28 PM, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 06, 2018 at 01:39:00AM +0700, Eugene Grosbein wrote:
> > 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 $FreeBSD$.>
> No, you missed the point.  Whatever nice is the handling of
> unchanged files,> use of mergemaster forces me to handle changed files, which is exactly> what I do not want/need to do.  Yes, I update crashboxes very
> often, and> I want to get all new code, including the startup scripts, when
> I update.
The startup scripts will be installed as part of installworld.


Regards,
Brad Davis