Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 00:28:28 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> Cc: Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net>, Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Building new kernel fails? Message-ID: <37DD181C.CB2D214D@newsguy.com> References: <3.0.5.32.19990913100217.01bbb3e0@staff.sentex.ca> <v0420550cb402b8154e10@[195.238.1.121]> <19990913155615.C89466@florence.pavilion.net> <v0420550eb402c301e079@[195.238.1.121]>
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Brad Knowles wrote: > > If I understand correctly (IIUC?), it basically creates a > tripwire-like database of files, names, etc..., and continues to > track whatever changes may be made in your configuration versus the > database it initially builds. Err... no. At least not until the last version I saw. :-) It just makes /etc in an alternate directory, compares it's results to what you currently have, skip identical files and files with same cvs tag, and ask you how to deal with each of the remaining files. > In this context, it doesn't seem to buy you much of anything if > you were stupid enough to cvsup before you ran the program the first > time, right? I mean, you need to get that tripwire-like database Nope. There is no database, and things are compared to what you *have* in /etc, which is very different from what you get from cvsup. Which is the whole point. If you /etc was identical from the original /usr/src/etc, then you could simply always overwrite the newer /usr/src/etc over it. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "Thus, over the years my wife and I have physically diverged. While I have zoomed toward a crusty middle-age, she has instead clung doggedly to the sweet bloom of youth. Naturally I think this unfair. Yet, if it was the other way around, I confess I wouldn't be happy either." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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