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Date:      Thu, 17 Oct 2002 22:17:39 -0500
From:      "Jim C. Nasby" <jim@nasby.net>
To:        Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au>
Cc:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Mergemaster [was: Re: Ifconfig config of gif tunnels]
Message-ID:  <20021017221739.A92426@flake.decibel.org>
In-Reply-To: <20021016223004.GI32705@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au>; from peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au on Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 08:30:04AM %2B1000
References:  <004401c2742a$d6169d90$6501a8c0@VAIO650> <3DAC0045.4060201@Kernick.org> <3DAC163D.1060701@inode.at> <20021016193422.A51167@raven.addict.de> <20021016213038.GH32705@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> <200210162219.g9GMJYEt017521@apollo.backplane.com> <20021016223004.GI32705@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au>

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On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 08:30:04AM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On 2002-Oct-16 15:19:34 -0700, Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> wrote:
> >    This is not correct.  As long as the changes to the /etc/rc* files
> >    are synchronized with the changes to /etc/defaults/*, the expected
> >    behavior (at least as close as it is possible to get) will be
> >    maintained.  That's the whole point.  
> 
> I agree.  My concern was that Juergen was suggesting that mergemaster
> invisibly update /etc/defaults/rc.conf - which could easily cause
> problems when the sysadmin fails to notice that he needs to make
> corresponding changes to his /etc/rc.conf.
> 
What if there was a special string/tag that could be added to a file to
tell mergemaster not to silently update it? Or maybe a config file with
a list of files not to automatically update.

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