I don't know about there being a manual but one way is to have etc-update
show you the differences - that shows what's being taken out and what's
added. Second look through the files in /etc/conf.d of which there are
many new ones. In etc-update you can do an interactive merge which lets
you choose whether you want the new or old stuff. I did that and didn't
loose anything. Although etc-update seems like a kludge it's still one of
the better ways to handle updating and not - as in some distros - a) blow
away all the users
changes for the new or b) don't add any of the changes some of which may
be desired. The etc-update seems to make the best of something that's
tough to do - automate as much as possible updates to user changed config
files. It's better than manual editing and copy and paste.
On Sat, 18 Jun 2005, Walter Dnes wrote:
On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 10:10:10PM -0400, Brett I. Holcomb wrote
It was a baselayout change. If you'd checked all the changes you would
have seen much of the stuff has moved to /etc/conf.d files. For example,
rc.conf is stripped down but the items that were there are now in files in
/etc/conf.d.
m450 root # man rc.conf
No manual entry for rc.conf
I'm willing to RTFM, now all I have to do is FTFM (*FIND* TFM). Is
there a description somewhere that I can read? I don't want to dump
*ALL* my old rc.conf settings before I know what they're being replaced
with. I've put in some work to set up my system the way *I* want it set
up, and I don't want to have everthing go back to old defaults again.
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