On Sat, Feb 13, 1999 at 10:19:27PM -0500, a little birdie told me
that jack remarked
> 
> I think it's a feature.  RELENG_3, as of this morning, does the
> same thing for a new install, except that the file exists but is
> empty except for the "...just the overrides..." header.  
> 
> For an `upgrade' install it copies _all_ of the old rc.conf
> values into the new one, advertising them as just the overrides.

It's always (in the past) saved the host/network config I setup during
the installation (FTP), so I'd boot up afterwards and not have to reset
the host name, network interfaces, default router, etc etc etc.  Had me
panicing for about 20 seconds trying to figure out what I messed up,
until I realized that /etc/rc.conf was empty.  It's the anti-POLA!  ;)



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