Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 17:07:20 -0700 From: "Robert L Sowders" <rsowders@usgs.gov> To: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> Cc: Christopher Smith <drsmithy@mailbox.uq.edu.au>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mergemaster -- whats the best way? Message-ID: <OFF9F214A9.B4966260-ON88256AE8.00006EE9@wr.usgs.gov>
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This is a multipart message in MIME format. --=_alternative 0000AD2888256AE8_= Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I not sure I'm following your thoughts here, I thought the /etc/defaults/rc.conf should never be modified by the user and /etc/rc.conf is not touched by mergemaster so I don't really see how it applies here. Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> Sent by: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG 10/16/2001 04:43 PM To: Christopher Smith <drsmithy@mailbox.uq.edu.au> cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mergemaster -- whats the best way? On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Christopher Smith wrote: > [chomp] > > > P'raps even merge both ideas into one - a "preprocessor" that does the file > comparisons to find files modified since install that then passes those > files in an exclusion list... > The problem with ignoring modified files is that you modify (for example) /etc/group when you add a user, but sometimes there's a new "system" group that needs to be added (for example, the network group was added a few years ago). Changes get made to /etc/defaults/rc.conf that require changes to /etc/rc.conf; also the /etc/.ssh stuff. So leaving modified files alone is not a complete solution. Annelise -- Annelise Anderson Author of: FreeBSD: An Open-Source Operating System for Your PC Available from: mall.daemonnews.org and amazon.com Book Website: http://www.bittreepress.com/FreeBSD/introbook/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message --=_alternative 0000AD2888256AE8_= Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" <br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I not sure I'm following your thoughts here, I thought the /etc/defaults/rc.conf should never be modified by the user and /etc/rc.conf is not touched by mergemaster so I don't really see how it applies here.</font> <br> <br> <br> <br> <table width=100%> <tr valign=top> <td> <td><font size=1 face="sans-serif"><b>Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu></b></font> <br><font size=1 face="sans-serif">Sent by: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG</font> <p><font size=1 face="sans-serif">10/16/2001 04:43 PM</font> <br> <td><font size=1 face="Arial"> </font> <br><font size=1 face="sans-serif"> To: Christopher Smith <drsmithy@mailbox.uq.edu.au></font> <br><font size=1 face="sans-serif"> cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG</font> <br><font size=1 face="sans-serif"> Subject: Re: mergemaster -- whats the best way?</font></table> <br> <br><font size=2 face="Courier New">On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Christopher Smith wrote:<br> <br> > [chomp]<br> > <br> <br> > <br> > P'raps even merge both ideas into one - a "preprocessor" that does the file <br> > comparisons to find files modified since install that then passes those <br> > files in an exclusion list...<br> > <br> The problem with ignoring modified files is that you modify (for example)<br> /etc/group when you add a user, but sometimes there's a new "system"<br> group that needs to be added (for example, the network group was added<br> a few years ago). Changes get made to /etc/defaults/rc.conf that require<br> changes to /etc/rc.conf; also the /etc/.ssh stuff. So leaving modified<br> files alone is not a complete solution.<br> <br> Annelise <br> <br> -- <br> Annelise Anderson<br> Author of: FreeBSD: An Open-Source Operating System for Your PC<br> Available from: mall.daemonnews.org and amazon.com<br> Book Website: http://www.bittreepress.com/FreeBSD/introbook/ <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org<br> with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message<br> </font> <br> <br> --=_alternative 0000AD2888256AE8_=-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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