make upgrade overwrites /etc/mail/mailer.conf

Joerg Anslik joerg at anslik.de
Mon Feb 7 15:23:23 PST 2005


Well,

>could we please not use this default stuff for mailer.conf? I mean, what for?
>I completely fail to see the point, because this isn't something that can be 
>"partly overridden". it's like sshd_config...

I don't see a reason for this, too, since make's upgrade target has
already been fixed not to overwrite mailer.conf. And, as you say, it's
no file being partly overridden...so what the fsck? What really
bothers me is /etc/services being overwritten on every make upgrade,
so modifying getservent() and its aunts and uncles makes pretty much
sense to me.

--j

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