| From: | Eirik Nygaard <eirikn@xxxxxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Fri, 16 Apr 2004 10:28:47 +0200 |
On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 07:15:31AM +0200, Jörg Anslik wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm using qmail on my machine (with a corresponding > /etc/mail/mailer.conf to keep legacy mailer stuff happy), and I > noticed my custom file being replaced by a default version whenever I > do a "make upgrade". > > I checked if moving mailer.conf to some other place, e.g. > /usr/local/etc/mail solves the problem, but it didn't do the trick, so > I just thought I'll let you know about this, since the man pages I > checked don't discuss this topic in detail. Looked in the wrong > places, maybe. :-) > This is probably one of the short-comings of the way we handle configure files at the moment, I have been talking to Eivind Eklund about looking into if his etcmerge is something we could benefit from. I will see if I can have some patches ready tonight, and will send the patch-set to the list when it is working. -- Eirik Nygaard eirikn@xxxxxxxxxxxx Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.
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