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Date:      Wed, 26 Oct 2005 09:06:52 +0200
From:      Marwan Burelle <Marwan.Burelle@lri.fr>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 6.0 RC1 usbd.conf (and installation comments)
Message-ID:  <20051026070652.GB440@pc5-179.lri.fr>
In-Reply-To: <200510260046.j9Q0khYU004317@app.auscert.org.au>
References:  <200510260046.j9Q0khYU004317@app.auscert.org.au>

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On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 10:46:43AM +1000, Joel Hatton wrote:
> 	most files in /etc/rc.d changed, so installing them all with
> 	mergemaster was laborious - a note in UPDATING similar to that for
> 	5.x:
>=20
> 		"The simplest solution is an 'rm -rf /etc/rc.d/*' and then
> 		'mergemaster -i'."
>=20
> 	would have reminded me to do just that and saved about 10 minutes
> 	of clicking 'q', then 'i' :) I did, in this case, run mergemaster
> 	-i, but didn't think to do the above. On this note, I still can't
> 	work out how to use the edit-merge part of mergemaster properly,
> 	but it is certainly a pebkac issue.

Just a few words on that point ... after some use of mergemaster, it
seems to me that a big part of /etc have to be update blindly for most
users (things in rc.d, and some other places where there's files that
haven't to changed or that are system script that most users won't
modify.)

I hadn't time to add a possibility for mergemaster to perform blind
updates of such files[1], but it seems not so complicated to do so.

Does anyone else thinks that's an interesting idea ?

[1] : providing a list of directories and/or files to mergemaster for
which blind updates could be perform, for example ...

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Burelle Marwan,
Equipe Bases de Donnees - LRI
http://www.cduce.org
(burelle@lri.fr | Marwan.Burelle@ens.fr)
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