From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jan 29 2:50: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37F5B37B402 for ; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 02:49:44 -0800 (PST) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA10291; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 11:49:36 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Vadim Belman Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, "Louis A. Mamakos" Subject: Re: /etc/shells #include syntax support patch References: <20010128101349.2c94539f.steveo@eircom.net> <20010128190227.B25222@spawn.nectar.com> <200101290453.f0T4roq13148@whizzo.transsys.com> <20010129105930.C62046@lflat.vas.mobilix.dk> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 29 Jan 2001 11:49:36 +0100 In-Reply-To: Vadim Belman's message of "Mon, 29 Jan 2001 10:59:30 +0100" Message-ID: Lines: 15 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Vadim Belman writes: > On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 11:53:50PM -0500, Louis A. Mamakos wrote: > > It doesn't seem unreasonable to have a single file with a list of allowable > > shells. > It does if you think of mergemaster, for example. With any upgrade > it consider /etc/shells as changed and prompts for replacing/merging/etc. No. Mergemaster doesn't care about the contents of the file, only about its $FreeBSD$ tag. As long as this stays the same, it'll leave the file alone. If you remove the $FreeBSD$ tag in the installed file or someone commits to src/etc/shells, mergemaster will prompt you. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message