Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 15:07:16 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: arch@freebsd.org, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, Gordon Tetlow <gordon@tetlows.org> Subject: Re: Mergemaster enhancement Message-ID: <20060413150544.N1096@ganymede.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <443E9167.6090309@elischer.org> References: <443DFC58.6060502@tetlows.org> <443E9167.6090309@elischer.org>
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On Thu, 13 Apr 2006, Julian Elischer wrote: > Gordon Tetlow wrote: > >> I've thrown together a quick mergemaster enhancement that will >> automagically upgrade files that have changed in the /usr/src/etc >> distribution but the user hasn't changed. Great applications are for when >> you trust that we aren't going to break everything and only don't want >> mergemaster to squash files that you have customized. >> >> Patch location: >> http://people.freebsd.org/~gordon/patches/mergemaster.mtree.diff >> >> How it works: >> Through clever use of mtree, I build an mtree description of everything >> that make distribution installs (only size and md5) from the temproot. When >> the user completes a mergemaster run, the mtree description file gets >> installed into /var/db for safe-keeping. >> >> When the user then decides to do a subsequent upgrade (with the -U flag), >> the existing mtree description from /var/db is called into service looking >> for files that are different in DESTDIR. This is stashed away until a file >> that would normally end up prompting you to look at changes is encountered. >> Since there are no user modified changes, the new file is installed without >> bothering the user. >> >> Let me know what you think. > > > I really like it > especially as it is optional I don't know if there is any way of doing this "automatically", but the one beef I have with mergemaster is it prompting me whether I want to install the new one if all that has changed is the $Id tag ... I don't mind looking at the diff of the ones that there are actual changes to, or doing a -U to 'skip' those, but would be nice if the ones that *really* haven't changed were done automatically ... ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664
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