From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Feb 14 9:52:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from grumpy.dyndns.org (user-24-214-56-129.knology.net [24.214.56.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEE8837B401 for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 09:52:24 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dkelly@localhost) by grumpy.dyndns.org (8.11.1/8.11.2) id f1EHpoG81137; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 11:51:50 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dkelly) Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 11:51:50 -0600 From: David Kelly To: Stephen Montgomery-Smith Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Different approach to mergemaster Message-ID: <20010214115150.B81070@grumpy.dyndns.org> References: <3A8AB391.12D1D822@math.missouri.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3A8AB391.12D1D822@math.missouri.edu>; from stephen@math.missouri.edu on Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 10:34:25AM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 10:34:25AM -0600, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > Before mergemaster came popular, I developed my own approach > to updating /etc which works rather nicely. I never did get > around to trying mergemaster, but I see emails where from time > to time people have troubles with it, and I thought that I > would share my approach. With all due respect what you describe sounds exactly like mergemaster. Mergemaster builds a temporary /etc and diffs the current /etc against it. Changes are presented for approval, "select old, new, or edit". The only problems I've had is being impatient and hitting the 'i' for Install key before I really groked the differences. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message