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Date:      Sun, 13 Oct 2002 20:13:08 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Chris BeHanna <behanna@zbzoom.net>
To:        FreeBSD-Stable <stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Ifconfig config of gif tunnels
Message-ID:  <20021013201214.O86274-100000@topperwein.pennasoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <20021013181108.D523-100000@femme.sapphite.org>

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On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, Trish Lynch wrote:

> On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, Matthew Dillon wrote:
>
> >
> >     Sorry, just venting.  Mergemaster is just one of those programs
> >     which does important things but goes about it in an unbelievably
> >     annoying and unobvious fashion.
> >
>
> I agree, which is why I do it the way I do it, makes for easy, no nonsense
> upgrades, and I know what changes are being made, so I don;t have to worry
> about mergemaster adding or subtracting users from my passwd or group
> files, I can do it myself on my own and spend 30 seconds, instead of 3 or
> 4 minutes.

    I keep every file that I alter in CVS.  If mergemaster fluffs
something, I can review the diffs vs. my customizations, and fix things
by hand.

    It doesn't happen very often.

-- 
Chris BeHanna                      http://www.pennasoft.com
Principal Consultant
PennaSoft Corporation
chris@pennasoft.com


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