Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 09:42:18 +0100 From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com> To: Yar Tikhiy <yar@comp.chem.msu.su> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A smarter mergemaster Message-ID: <20050930084218.GC80146@uk.tiscali.com> In-Reply-To: <20050929224548.GB3035@comp.chem.msu.su> References: <20050929224548.GB3035@comp.chem.msu.su>
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On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 02:45:48AM +0400, Yar Tikhiy wrote: > The fruitiest features are as follows: Will it automatically install new versions of files where the old one was not altered? That's my biggest bugbear with mergemaster - it asks you about a zillion files in /etc/rc.d which you have to manually agree to overwrite just because the RCS ID has changed. In those cases where you've not altered them yourself, I think you should just get the latest version. However to do this properly, you'd need checksums of the original files. [*] Also, can we have mergemaster work as part of the binary upgrade process too please... the new files are in /usr/share/examples/etc so I don't see why we can't merge directly from there into /etc Regards, Brian. [*] http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-current/2005-May/049784.html point 4.
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