Re: after update to r292778 no interface ath0 and wlan0

On Thursday, January 07, 2016 04:55:07 PM Michael Gmelin wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Jan 2016 12:49:50 +0100
> Matthias Apitz <guru_at_unixarea.de> wrote:
> 
> > El día Thursday, January 07, 2016 a las 03:04:24AM +0100, Michael
> > Gmelin escribió:
> > 
> > > > wlans_ath0="wlan0"
> > > > ifconfig_wlan0="WPA DHCP"
> > > > 
> > > > (i.e. unchanged as they worked before); in dmesg the aht0 is
> > > > shown as usual with:
> > > >   
> > > 
> > > See
> > > https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2015-August/042976.html
> > > and don't forget to run mergemaster to update rc scripts.  
> > 
> > A side question or remark on this: Why I do understand that certain
> > files (like: /etc/group, /etc/motd, ...) must be overwritten or
> > merged or ignored with the files from the new installworld, I do not
> > understand why the script files in /etc/rc.d or /etc are not just
> > overwritten with the new files; 
> > 
> > these files are not meant to be changed by the system admin, they are
> > just new software;
> 
> This shouldn't be a problem when using freebsd-update. While following
> CURRENT I find the idea of finding manual/local changes done by the
> local admin/developer quite useful (it's a bit of a philosophical
> question/my opinion).
> 
> "mergemaster -a" isn't the correct way to update (see mergemaster(8)
> and /usr/src/UPDATING), either use "mergemaster -i"
> or "mergemaster -iF" (I use the latter, as I don't usually don't mess
> with rc scripts myself).
> 
> Things might change if/once base is installed using pkg(8).

etcupdate(8) uses a more automated process than mergemaster and will
generally update unmodified files in /etc automatically without having
to page through diffs, etc.

-- 
John Baldwin