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Date:      Fri, 30 Sep 2005 23:20:35 +0930
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Cc:        Yar Tikhiy <yar@comp.chem.msu.su>, hackers@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org, Brian Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>
Subject:   Re: A smarter mergemaster
Message-ID:  <200509302320.36572.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <20050930084218.GC80146@uk.tiscali.com>
References:  <20050929224548.GB3035@comp.chem.msu.su> <20050930084218.GC80146@uk.tiscali.com>

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On Friday 30 September 2005 18:12, Brian Candler wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 02:45:48AM +0400, Yar Tikhiy wrote:
> > The fruitiest features are as follows:
>
> Will it automatically install new versions of files where the old one was
> not altered? That's my biggest bugbear with mergemaster - it asks you abo=
ut
> a zillion files in /etc/rc.d which you have to manually agree to overwrite
> just because the RCS ID has changed. In those cases where you've not
> altered them yourself, I think you should just get the latest version.
> However to do this properly, you'd need checksums of the original files.

*broken record*
Try etcmerge, it's in ports.

I think the main problem is that you can't use etcmerge *right now* because=
=20
you have to do one last manual merge to get a baseline etc directory.

=2D-=20
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
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are so many of them to choose from."
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