Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 18:15:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org> To: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <jeff-ml@mountin.net> Cc: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NOUUCP knob MFC? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007141807470.37184-100000@dt052n3e.san.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.20000714141854.00bd24d0@207.227.119.2>
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On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Jeffrey J. Mountin wrote:
> The next step would be to advise of cruft left around after turning on
> knobs. Something mergemaster could be expanded to do. Shouldn't happen
> automagically. One can be prompted and have a choice of options or like
> mergemaster currently does for files that only exist in the installed
> system.
If you use mergemaster -v it will give you a report of files that
exist in the installed /etc that don't exist in the temporary /etc, but
the problem with that is that there are so many files that exist in the
real system that aren't generated by /usr/src/etc/Makefile that it becomes
very difficult to judge which should stay in any kind of automatic way.
I suppose it wouldn't be too hard to generate a kind of hints file
that says something like, "exports Needed for the machine to operate as
an NFS server" or something like that. The problem would be keeping this
file up to date, which I would not be willing to maintain. One of my
design goals for mergemaster is to make it as system independent as
possible, so that the worst case scenario is that the user is encouraged
strongly to leave things alone. :)
Doug
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