On Tue, 26 Jul 2011, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > Building from source never alters anything in /etc, even (especially?) > > when there are major structural changes, as in /etc/rc.d. > > Right. A 'make build' does not modify anything which is configuration > related. That would be a tremendous hazard. > > > However, are you saying you ran sysmerge, and sysmerge DIDN'T update > > this for you? I just verified on a system of mine that the Jul 19 > > snapshot's version of sysmerge had no difficulty updating the /etc > > files, including /etc/rc and populating /etc/rc.d > > sysmerge can't handle everything.
sysmerge handles this just fine when updating from sets. When run against /usr/src it updates the running system according to distribution-etc-root-var -- if that is no enough, then there's nothing sysmerge can do about it. -- Antoine
