Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 11:55:29 -0600 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> To: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Different approach to mergemaster Message-ID: <3A8AC691.D4165B24@math.missouri.edu> References: <3A8AB391.12D1D822@math.missouri.edu> <20010214115150.B81070@grumpy.dyndns.org>
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No, what I described is different to what you describe. David Kelly wrote: > > 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. -- Stephen Montgomery-Smith stephen@math.missouri.edu 307 Math Science Building stephen@showme.missouri.edu Department of Mathematics stephen@missouri.edu University of Missouri-Columbia Columbia, MO 65211 USA Phone (573) 882 4540 Fax (573) 882 1869 http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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