From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Oct 17 20:17:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DFC937B401 for ; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 20:17:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from flake.decibel.org (flake.decibel.org [66.93.216.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F016F43E8A for ; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 20:17:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from decibel@decibel.org) Received: (qmail 67983 invoked by uid 1001); 18 Oct 2002 03:17:39 -0000 Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 22:17:39 -0500 From: "Jim C. Nasby" To: Peter Jeremy Cc: Matthew Dillon , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mergemaster [was: Re: Ifconfig config of gif tunnels] Message-ID: <20021017221739.A92426@flake.decibel.org> Reply-To: jim@nasby.net Mail-Followup-To: "Jim C. Nasby" , Peter Jeremy , Matthew Dillon , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20021016223004.GI32705@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au>; from peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au on Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 08:30:04AM +1000 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.6.1-RELEASE-p10 i386 X-Distributed: Join the Effort! http://www.distributed.net Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 08:30:04AM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On 2002-Oct-16 15:19:34 -0700, Matthew Dillon 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. -- Jim C. Nasby (aka Decibel!) jim@nasby.net Member: Triangle Fraternity, Sports Car Club of America Give your computer some brain candy! www.distributed.net Team #1828 Windows: "Where do you want to go today?" Linux: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?" FreeBSD: "Are you guys coming, or what?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message