From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 10 20:22:58 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4EF61065686 for ; Thu, 10 Jun 2010 20:22:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx21.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 455378FC1C for ; Thu, 10 Jun 2010 20:22:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 15397 invoked by uid 399); 10 Jun 2010 20:22:55 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO foreign.dougb.net) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with ESMTPAM; 10 Jun 2010 20:22:55 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-Sender: dougb@dougbarton.us Message-ID: <4C11499E.6050300@FreeBSD.org> Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 13:22:54 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100330 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Baldwin References: <201006101346.59824.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <201006101346.59824.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC: etcupdate tool in base? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 20:22:58 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 06/10/10 10:46, John Baldwin wrote: | I've had several folks ask me recently about importing etcupdate | (http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/etcupdate) into the base system as an alternate | tool for updating /etc during upgrades. Do folks have any strong objections | to doing so? More details about how it works and an HTML version of the | manpage can be found at the URL above. Initially mergemaster was a port which gave lots of people the opportunity to gain familiarity with it easily. At some point after it had been a port for a while there was a "critical mass" of people suggesting that it be moved into the base system since it was one of those ports that almost everyone installed anyway. That said, I have no objection to whatever the community decides should be done with etcupdate. Given that they approach the problems of updating differently I think that there will be people who are more attracted to it instead of mergemaster, and that's fine too. :) hth, Doug - -- ... and that's just a little bit of history repeating. -- Propellerheads Improve the effectiveness of your Internet presence with a domain name makeover! http://SupersetSolutions.com/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (FreeBSD) iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJMEUmdAAoJEFzGhvEaGryEf4UH/jj+mXScik9Oo1kQWEBRn4b6 qLpVFKScsEX5OXKXAzgu48tDA9P9rkZOsL9thlyhPR2G4CsPyIl7EpYk0o91uvV7 +GUwBhI/MXh4GFwq0p42U92wbO9lRslg9vXkV0m+KoSXnswlIuqYLkfmwhuXu1QV Mc7cE4L3Ud6xnvvcmt3NTvyKatEYqvoIgF5FjXXgMUOjpWxWnLkgV/iq7/KFA4uf o+a2yWwRVrXVv73QX5UBcjFUBbO9jDhgK/RCa5z6g7csggkK9rdzsYJedrfYMkoz 3LOGqOkC64HeJBAHhUKUl+1V/CNvK6vkbDbLRvu/FV7mHPrRB6COzw0LuRFcEWA= =msL6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----