From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Oct 16 17: 7:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from gscamnlm03.wr.usgs.gov (gscamnlm03.wr.usgs.gov [130.118.4.113]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7888137B40E; Tue, 16 Oct 2001 17:07:23 -0700 (PDT) To: Annelise Anderson Cc: Christopher Smith , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mergemaster -- whats the best way? MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Release 5.0.8 June 18, 2001 Message-ID: From: "Robert L Sowders" Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 17:07:20 -0700 X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on gscamnlm03/SERVER/USGS/DOI(Release 5.0.8 |June 18, 2001) at 10/16/2001 05:07:23 PM, Serialize complete at 10/16/2001 05:07:23 PM Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="=_alternative 0000AD2888256AE8_=" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multipart message in MIME format. --=_alternative 0000AD2888256AE8_= Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I not sure I'm following your thoughts here, I thought the /etc/defaults/rc.conf should never be modified by the user and /etc/rc.conf is not touched by mergemaster so I don't really see how it applies here. Annelise Anderson Sent by: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG 10/16/2001 04:43 PM To: Christopher Smith cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mergemaster -- whats the best way? On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Christopher Smith wrote: > [chomp] > > > P'raps even merge both ideas into one - a "preprocessor" that does the file > comparisons to find files modified since install that then passes those > files in an exclusion list... > The problem with ignoring modified files is that you modify (for example) /etc/group when you add a user, but sometimes there's a new "system" group that needs to be added (for example, the network group was added a few years ago). Changes get made to /etc/defaults/rc.conf that require changes to /etc/rc.conf; also the /etc/.ssh stuff. So leaving modified files alone is not a complete solution. Annelise -- Annelise Anderson Author of: FreeBSD: An Open-Source Operating System for Your PC Available from: mall.daemonnews.org and amazon.com Book Website: http://www.bittreepress.com/FreeBSD/introbook/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message --=_alternative 0000AD2888256AE8_= Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii"
I not sure I'm following your thoughts here, I thought the /etc/defaults/rc.conf should never be modified by the user and /etc/rc.conf is not touched by mergemaster so I don't really see how it applies here.



Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu>
Sent by: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG

10/16/2001 04:43 PM

       
        To:        Christopher Smith <drsmithy@mailbox.uq.edu.au>
        cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
        Subject:        Re: mergemaster -- whats the best way?


On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Christopher Smith wrote:

> [chomp]
>

>
> P'raps even merge both ideas into one - a "preprocessor" that does the file
> comparisons to find files modified since install that then passes those
> files in an exclusion list...
>
The problem with ignoring modified files is that you modify (for example)
/etc/group when you add a user, but sometimes there's a new "system"
group that needs to be added (for example, the network group was added
a few years ago).  Changes get made to /etc/defaults/rc.conf that require
changes to /etc/rc.conf; also the /etc/.ssh stuff. So leaving modified
files alone is not a complete solution.

                Annelise

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