Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 22:17:44 +0100 (CET) From: Peter Ulrich Kruppa <root@pukruppa.de> To: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: question on mergemaster Message-ID: <20040119221449.W1109@pukruppa.net> In-Reply-To: <400C0E5F.5010606@potentialtech.com> References: <400C012E.4040002@mail.ru> <400C0E5F.5010606@potentialtech.com>
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On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, Bill Moran wrote: > If mergemaster checked each file for a magic value, such as: > # mergemaster autoreplace > and automatically updated those files without prompting the user, then > users could add such a line to the beginning of each file in /etc that > they are comfortable updating without feedback. It may seem like a lot > of work, but it's only done _once_ (although mergemaster would need to > be taught to preserve this magic when it updates the file) > > The optimistic way to do this would be to have some sort of switch to > mergemaster to tell it to go into autoupdate mode, and it will only ask > for files that contain a "negative magic" like: > # mergemaster noautoreplace > In which case the administrator should put this string at the beginning > of every file that he tweaks in /etc > > Comments? What about a file "mergemaster_ignore" where I put in the six or seven names of files that should never be touched? Regards, Uli. > > -- > Bill Moran > Potential Technologies > http://www.potentialtech.com > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > +---------------------------+ | Peter Ulrich Kruppa | | Wuppertal | | Germany | +---------------------------+
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