Re: A smarter mergemaster

From: Ashley Moran (work_at_ashleymoran.me.uk)
Date: 09/30/05

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    Daniel O'Connor wrote:
    > On Friday 30 September 2005 18:23, Ashley Moran wrote:
    >
    > It sure would be nice :)
    > One thing would be to have automatically fetched etc directories so when you
    > ran it for the first time it would grab a release version of etc for you :)
    > Hmm.. I'll try and add that if I get some time I think!
    >

    Funny you should say that... I had a crack at something similar myself
    (see below). But I was hampered by the fact that

    a) I had never used CVS before (we use <whisper>VSS</whisper> here but
    I'm moving it all to SVN), and
    b) I have no idea how the FreeBSD build process works
    (I'm a hardcore hacker lol)

    Unfortunately it seems that config files for the subsystems (eg SSH) are
    stored separately in the CVS tree and I didn't have time to work out
    where they live.

    While we're on the subject, how do you handle the DB files? I don't see
    any special mention of them in the man pages. When I last etcmerged I
    glossed over them and haven't had any login problems since.

    Ashley

    Here is my effort:

    #!/bin/sh
    # takes one argument: name of the tag to get from CVS

    cd /var/db

    # clear out any previous files
    rm -rf etc

    # fetch new etc files from cvs
    export CVSROOT=:pserver:anoncvs:anoncvs@anoncvs.fr.FreeBSD.org:/home/ncvs
    cvs login
    cvs -QR export -r$1 etc
    cvs logout

    cd etc

    # local adjustment
    mv etc.i386/ttys .

    # clear out the other platform-specific files
    rm -r etc.*
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