From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 21 19:47:55 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BAD016A4CE for ; Sun, 21 Dec 2003 19:47:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from saturn.criticalmagic.com (saturn.criticalmagic.com [68.213.16.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B33143D1F for ; Sun, 21 Dec 2003 19:47:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from richardcoleman@mindspring.com) Received: from mindspring.com (titan.criticalmagic.com [68.213.16.23]) by saturn.criticalmagic.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BE163BD2A; Sun, 21 Dec 2003 22:47:53 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3FE66979.5070000@mindspring.com> Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 22:48:09 -0500 From: Richard Coleman Organization: Critical Magic, Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andy Farkas References: <20031221084531.GB31516@cactus.homeunix.org> <20031221105925.GA1713@utgard.lodz.mm.pl> <1072018131.715.10.camel@localhost> <3FE5B804.6000707@ispro.net.tr> <20031221154129.GE2228@saboteur.dek.spc.org> <3FE65CFF.2000102@mindspring.com> <20031222132538.N97523@hewey.af.speednet.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20031222132538.N97523@hewey.af.speednet.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mergemaster feature suggestion... X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: richardcoleman@mindspring.com List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 03:47:55 -0000 Andy Farkas wrote: > Richard Coleman wrote: > >>Well, regardless of what is the official method, it doesn't mean we (as >>developers) need to make life hard for ourselves. There are a couple >>times I would have found such a feature in mergemaster to be useful >>(mainly as a sanity check). It's not a showstopper, just a "nice to have". > > I *always* use mergemaster's -v option. It does exactly what I want: tells > me which files currently in /etc that are not part of the new install. > > :{ andyf@speednet.com.au > > Andy Farkas > System Administrator > Speednet Communications > http://www.speednet.com.au/ Doh. The feature I was looking for is essentially already there. For some reason, I didn't notice this when I read the man page. Thanks for the pointer. Richard Coleman richardcoleman@mindspring.com