Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1998 15:10:45 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: config@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Needed: intelisync-like functionality Message-ID: <199810082110.PAA15923@harmony.village.org>
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There are many applications that I've found for doing an intellegent syncing. I see two big classes of syncing that is needed: 1) Keeping n files on n systems the same, while allowing for changes on any of the n systems. This is what intellisync does in the Windows world. 2) To allow merging of an example file with a config file over time (ala the /etc/rc.conf problem). I maintain that if a simple program could solve both of these problems, then it would be generally useful for a huge class of things. Would it be acceptible to solve the /etc/rc.conf problem by having an /etc/img (or /var/db/sync-state or whatever) directory that kept state information about /etc/rc.conf? This would allow most changes to rc.conf the user makes to be preseved in a rc.conf updating proceedure. Comments? I can go into more detail if you'd like.. Warner P.S. I have need for something like this in many other areas, so I thought I'd see about writing something that would be useful to this long standing throny problem. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-config" in the body of the message
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