Re: make upgrade overwrites /etc/mail/mailer.conf

["Erik P. Skaalerud" <erik@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sascha Wildner wrote:
> Matthew Dillon wrote:
>
> >     This needs a slightly smarter install for certain files... a kinda of
> >     'install if this does not already exist' target. 
> >     Would someone care to submit a patch to do it?
>
>
> Matt,
>
> I have fixed this already for stuff in etc/isdn, see 
> http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/commits/2005-01/msg00221.html. 
> I will fix mailer.conf the same way.
>
> But it's actually more complicated than that. Some other files, notably 
> etc/services, have to be modified by the user for certain configurations 
>  (postfix in conjunction with some virus checkers; Joerg Anslik has such 
> a setup, fox example) but we also do not want to lose the ability to 
> bring in new stuff from IANA from time to time via 'make upgrade'.
>
> corecode suggested in IRC that we might put configuration files under 
> version control to be able to merge changes from both sides and it 
> sounds like a good idea.
>
> Sascha

Another solution could be using default files (/etc/defaults/services) 
and add overrides/custom entries in /etc/services.

Too bad that I have no idea how we could do this, since -alot- of tcp/ip 
tools use /etc/services directly. Any way to wrap this?

- Erik