On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:59:16 +0000, Anton Shterenlikht <me...@bristol.ac.uk> wrote: > I've seen this behaviour for years, but never bothered > to ask why. > > Imagine I already have in /etc/mail local .mc and .cf files. Imagine I > then update freebsd.mc. When I run make nothing happens. What I think > should happen is that local .mc should be updated and then .cf > generated. > > Because of this behaviour I have to manually delete local .mc files > and all .cf files before running make.
Or merge your local changes *into* the "local.mc" file. For example, I have several dozen lines of local customizations in "HOSTNAME.mc" here: r...@kobe:/etc/mail# diff -u freebsd.mc kobe.mc | diffstat -p1 kobe.mc | 167 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------- 1 file changed, 126 insertions(+), 41 deletions(-) I would be very annoyed if updating freebsd.mc clobbered these :-) _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
