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. _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
