Subject: Re: How to quarterly releases?
To: Geert Hendrickx <ghen@telenet.be>
From: D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy@NetBSD.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 11/08/2005 09:35:55
On Tue, 8 Nov 2005 14:44:56 +0100
Geert Hendrickx <ghen@telenet.be> wrote:
> > No, I leave the untouched files in the pkg directory.  The only files I
> > move out are those that I manually modify.  In those cases I modify the
> > startup script to use the -f or -c flag or whatever the alternate config
> > file option is for that program.
> 
> Not all packages have startup scripts.  What do you do with e.g. php.ini?  

So far I haven't run into problems.  PHP in particular isn't an issue
because I never use it.  I suppose I could replace files like that with
symlinks so at least I never lose the actual config file and just have
to remember to replace them when I do a complete blowout and rebuild.

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D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy@NetBSD.org>
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