On Sat, 20 Jan 2007, Greg Troxel wrote:

>  I am reluctant to install from a "DESTDIR" using "build.sh"  on a
>  running system, because I have the impression from the docs that
>  this would overwrite things in /etc and elsewhere, unlike the
>  old "make install" from /usr/src.
>
> The build.sh install target does not write into /etc, just the rest of
> the system.   That's the normal way to do an in-place from source

That is good to know.  It will spare me an experiment.

> upgrade.  usual warning about updating kernel first, of course.

Naturally.

> Also, you might find pkgsrc/sysutils/etcmanage of interest.

Yes, thanks.

Dave the Compiler
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