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Date:      Sun, 10 Oct 2004 07:38:21 +0000 (UTC)
From:      "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net>
To:        "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: What we keep under /etc
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.53.0410100735400.2113@e0-0.zab2.int.zabbadoz.net>
In-Reply-To: <20041009.205736.102124101.imp@bsdimp.com>
References:  <200410071355.i97DtSJq024575@repoman.freebsd.org> <20041009002051.GA20265@odin.ac.hmc.edu> <20041009.205736.102124101.imp@bsdimp.com>

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On Sat, 9 Oct 2004, M. Warner Losh wrote:

> In message: <20041009002051.GA20265@odin.ac.hmc.edu>
>             Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> writes:
> : As long as you don't actually modify the scripts you can just do an "rm
> : /etc/rc.d/*" and run mergemaster with -i.  It's a whole lot less painful
> : that way.
>
> rm -rf /etc/rc.d/* /etc/isdn/* /etc/periodic/* /etc/defaults/*
> mergemaster -i
>
> Is what I usually do.  However, I'd rather have a regexp of filenames
> that I can tell mergemaster NOT to merge and to merge everything else.

/etc/isdn/ includes quite some user customizable files. That's not too
got for automated update from make installworld for all those people
using ISDN though some selective files in that directory can for sure
be automatically updated (holiday, rates files I think).

-- 
Bjoern A. Zeeb				bzeeb at Zabbadoz dot NeT



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