> > 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.
So each installworld would wipe over the top of any localmod /etc/rc.d/ and other stuff that mght exist? One of the reasons that etc/Makefile is detached from Installword is so that /etc does not get perturbuted unless specifically requested. -- Rod Grimes rgri...@freebsd.org _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
