Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 16:43:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> To: Christopher Smith <drsmithy@mailbox.uq.edu.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mergemaster -- whats the best way? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10110161634530.39137-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> In-Reply-To: <200110162320.JAA13142@yowie.cc.uq.edu.au>
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On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Christopher Smith wrote: > [chomp] > > > P'raps even merge both ideas into one - a "preprocessor" that does the file > comparisons to find files modified since install that then passes those > files in an exclusion list... > The problem with ignoring modified files is that you modify (for example) /etc/group when you add a user, but sometimes there's a new "system" group that needs to be added (for example, the network group was added a few years ago). Changes get made to /etc/defaults/rc.conf that require changes to /etc/rc.conf; also the /etc/.ssh stuff. So leaving modified files alone is not a complete solution. Annelise -- Annelise Anderson Author of: FreeBSD: An Open-Source Operating System for Your PC Available from: mall.daemonnews.org and amazon.com Book Website: http://www.bittreepress.com/FreeBSD/introbook/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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