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Date:      Tue, 20 Jan 2004 11:29:20 +0600
From:      Max Khon <fjoe@iclub.nsu.ru>
To:        Matteo Riondato <rionda@gufi.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: question on mergemaster
Message-ID:  <20040120052920.GA79555@iclub.nsu.ru>
In-Reply-To: <1074536221.704.8.camel@kaiser.sig11.org>
References:  <400C012E.4040002@mail.ru> <400C0E5F.5010606@potentialtech.com> <400C16BB.8080908@mail.ru> <1074536221.704.8.camel@kaiser.sig11.org>

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Hello!

On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 07:17:01PM +0100, Matteo Riondato wrote:

> > If the file exists only in /etc, ask whether to delete it.
> 
> This means that mergemaster will everytime ask wether you
> want to delete rc.conf, fstab, and (may be) others file that
> you surely don't want to be deleted.

A list with files for which this question will not be asked with
reasonable defaults can be defined.
And I still do not like maintainer's approach to 'always-overwrite'
problem. I certainly do not want to delete /etc/rc.* (except /etc/rc.conf)
before running mergemaster -i so that he will not ask me whether
I want to update them.

/fjoe



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