On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 9:12 PM, Doug Barton <do...@freebsd.org> wrote: > On 8/7/2011 6:05 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: >> On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Simon L. B. Nielsen <si...@nitro.dk> 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).
No, if people use mergemaster in this mode: -U Attempt to auto upgrade files that have not been user modified. .. then mergemaster will silently turn off NIS for you. If it is considered bad practice to use -U, then people should be directed away from it. I think this is what killed the freebsd.org machine. -- Peter Wemm - pe...@wemm.org; pe...@freebsd.org; pe...@yahoo-inc.com; KI6FJV "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 "If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution." -- Robert Sewell _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"