On May 22, 11:30am, Robert Elz wrote:
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}   | And how do you suggest the build do that without storing original copies
}   | somewhere they won't be edited (eg. /etc/defaults/rc.d/*) so they can be
}   | compared with the active copies in /etc/rc.d?
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} I didn't suggest that that could be done without doing that did I?
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} That's certainly an option (all the standard rc.d scripts together total
} of the order of 100KB - a trivial volume).

     I would certainly support this option.  Ultimately, I would like
to see a copy of the contents of /etc/defaults stashed somewhere (i.e.
/etc/origs), and then have /etc/defaults moved back to /etc (I really
hate that scheme and it is one of the biggest things I hate about
SysV).  Once this is done, updates could be done by doing a three way
merge between old /etc/origs, old /etc, and new /etc/origs.

}-- End of excerpt from Robert Elz