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Date:      Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:19:02 +0100
From:      Christian Laursen <xi@borderworlds.dk>
To:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@bimajority.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: svn: head/usr.sbin/mergemaster
Message-ID:  <ygfeizlb8k9.fsf@dominion.borderworlds.dk>
In-Reply-To: <18782.37537.775290.682466@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> (Garrett Wollman's message of "Fri\, 2 Jan 2009 17\:18\:09 -0500")
References:  <200901011055.n01AtQaN052763@svn.freebsd.org> <495DB15B.8040908@FreeBSD.org> <495DB9B6.4030801@FreeBSD.org> <495DC5AF.3050908@FreeBSD.org> <495E91F8.3010706@FreeBSD.org> <18782.37537.775290.682466@hergotha.csail.mit.edu>

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Garrett Wollman <wollman@bimajority.org> writes:

> It would be much better if the options that *nearly every user will
> want to use* are set correctly by default.  I have to look at the man
> page every time I update a system to remind myself what is that magic
> option that makes mergemaster do the right thing with files I haven't
> changed.

I agree that auto-install and auto-upgrade would be nice to have on by
default.

However, mergemaster has a configuration file so you actually only
need to make things right once for every system.

cat > /etc/mergemaster.rc
AUTO_INSTALL=yes
AUTO_UPGRADE=yes
^d

-- 
Christian Laursen



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