Re: A smarter mergemaster

From: Brian Candler (B.Candler_at_pobox.com)
Date: 09/30/05

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    Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 09:42:18 +0100
To: Yar Tikhiy <yar@comp.chem.msu.su>

    On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 02:45:48AM +0400, Yar Tikhiy wrote:
    > The fruitiest features are as follows:

    Will it automatically install new versions of files where the old one was
    not altered? That's my biggest bugbear with mergemaster - it asks you about
    a zillion files in /etc/rc.d which you have to manually agree to overwrite
    just because the RCS ID has changed. In those cases where you've not altered
    them yourself, I think you should just get the latest version. However to do
    this properly, you'd need checksums of the original files. [*]

    Also, can we have mergemaster work as part of the binary upgrade process too
    please... the new files are in /usr/share/examples/etc so I don't see why we
    can't merge directly from there into /etc

    Regards,

    Brian.

    [*] http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-current/2005-May/049784.html
    point 4.
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