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Date:      Wed, 14 Feb 2001 14:36:14 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
To:        Greg Troxel <gdt@fnord.ir.bbn.com>
Cc:        Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, John Reynolds <jjreynold@home.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: sshd in 4.2-STABLE 
Message-ID:  <200102142136.f1ELaEW91674@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "13 Feb 2001 08:29:06 EST." <rmilmrar9st.fsf@fnord.ir.bbn.com> 
References:  <rmilmrar9st.fsf@fnord.ir.bbn.com>  <200102120843.f1C8hhM03375@earth.backplane.com> <1843641235.20010212104321@road.omskelecom.ru> <Pine.BSF.4.31.0102112212490.55276-100000@mx.dmz.orem.verio.net> <14983.29328.298241.606895@whale.home-net> <200102122124.f1CLONW31606@harmony.village.org> 

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In message <rmilmrar9st.fsf@fnord.ir.bbn.com> Greg Troxel writes:
: To me, POLA says that if I install 3.3, don't muck with stuff, and
: upgrade to 4.2, then I should have 4.2 without having to think about
: stuff I never mucked with (it's fair enough to have to understand
: stuff I changed).

That's fair enough.  The hard part is knowing what "not mucked with"
really means to sysinstall.  Short of having a md5 of the file
computed at install time, sysinstall would have to have a large
database of legal unmodified versions.

Mergemaster already deals with this problem.

Warner


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