Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 15:03:55 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au> To: Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org>, Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> Cc: Jason T <luser@ahab.com>, Gerhard Sittig <Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net>, FreeBSD stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: remove empty TEMPROOT dirs at mergemaster's end? (was: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/mergemaster mergemaster.sh) Message-ID: <00Aug18.150448est.115286@border.alcanet.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20000817232616.B296@sseye.ahab.com>; from luser@ahab.com on Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 11:26:16PM -0400 References: <200008171114.e7HBEuq01585@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008171221050.45645-100000@dt051n1f.san.rr.com> <20000817232616.B296@sseye.ahab.com>
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On 2000-Aug-17 23:26:16 -0400, Jason T <luser@ahab.com> wrote:
>I think I can clarify. If mergemaster leaves ANY files behind, it also leave
>the subdirectories, even the empty ones. The request is to have empty
>subdirectories (of ${TEMPROOT}) removed automatically. This benefits anyone,
>experienced or novice, who leaves some files behind for more deliberate
>examination after mergemaster.
Sounds useful. The other thing would be to delete the empty files which
get generated by mtree.
And whilst we're discussion wishlists for mergemaster: I recently
discovered that it is only capable of merging into the current root
directory. I have a system that I can dual-boot between different
versions of FreeBSD - useful when the world compiles but doesn't
work - wanted to run mergemaster into the `inactive' root partition.
I have now patched mergemaster so that you can specify a DESTDIR.
This works for everything except the XXX_mkdb commands. Would you
be interested in patches?
Peter
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