Daniel C. Sobral writes:
> And you can do it too with FreeBSD. It requires that you install the
> source. Sure, it's bigger than what Solaris have, but we offer much
> more. As I said, we do things different. If you are going to pick on the
> amount of source code you must install, I'll pick on the ability to
> rebuild the whole system.
You're definitely vindicating my decision to keep a separate copy of the
sendmail source tree _outside_ the FreeBSD hierarchy, so I don't have to
worry about how your install procedures are going to trash my work.
The point here is not whether or not I can rebuild or restore the system
customizations I've made; the point is that doing the FreeBSD update
eliminated an existing customized configuration that was pretty
important. Fortunately I know enough to be paranoid and keep copies of
things where the OS is not likely to stomp on them. But frankly I've
seen both Solaris and Digital UNIX do a better job of not wiping out
system customizations during OS updates and patch installs than FreeBSD
did here.
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