On 8/7/2011 6:05 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Simon L. B. Nielsen <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> On 6 Aug 2011, at 11:16, Doug Barton wrote:
>>
>>> Author: dougb
>>> Date: Sat Aug 6 09:16:53 2011
>>> New Revision: 224674
>>> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/224674
>>>
>>> Log:
>>> Rather than edit the nsswitch.conf file based on ${MK_NIS} == "no"
>>> comment out the NIS _compat options by default, but leave them in
>>> the file for the convenience of users who want to enable it.
>>>
>>> Update the comment in the file accordingly.
>>
>> This disables NIS by default which is rather surprising considering there
>> has been no prior (which I have been able to find) discussion of this.
>>
>> At the _VERY_ least people need to be warned about this loudly. Unless you
>> can show this really helps non-NIS users this is IMO a bad idea.
>>
>> Yes, if you hand merge all /etc files this won't be a problem... but I don't
>> since life's to short for that, so this change just broke login on one of
>> the FreeBSD.org during an upgrade.
mergemaster has been in the tree for almost 12 years now. :) In any
case, I can't think of a situation where blindly copying new files to
/etc is a good idea (with all due respect).
> non-POLA changes are bad, and this _definitely_ deserves an UPDATING
> entry and/or further discussion.
I'm happy to ask for permission to do the UPDATING entry, do you have
suggestions for the text?
Doug
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