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Date:      29 Jan 2001 11:49:36 +0100
From:      Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
To:        Vadim Belman <voland@lflat.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>
Subject:   Re: /etc/shells #include syntax support patch
Message-ID:  <xzpg0i2ljjz.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: Vadim Belman's message of "Mon, 29 Jan 2001 10:59:30 %2B0100"
References:  <20010128101349.2c94539f.steveo@eircom.net> <20010128190227.B25222@spawn.nectar.com> <200101290453.f0T4roq13148@whizzo.transsys.com> <20010129105930.C62046@lflat.vas.mobilix.dk>

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Vadim Belman <voland@lflat.org> writes:
> On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 11:53:50PM -0500, Louis A. Mamakos wrote:
> > It doesn't seem unreasonable to have a single file with a list of allowable
> > shells.
> 	It does if you think of mergemaster, for example. With any upgrade
> it consider /etc/shells as changed and prompts for replacing/merging/etc.

No. Mergemaster doesn't care about the contents of the file, only
about its $FreeBSD$ tag. As long as this stays the same, it'll leave
the file alone. If you remove the $FreeBSD$ tag in the installed file
or someone commits to src/etc/shells, mergemaster will prompt you.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org


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