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Date:      Wed, 22 Dec 2004 05:55:27 +0100
From:      Herve Quiroz <herve.quiroz@esil.univ-mrs.fr>
To:        Brent Verner <brent@rcfile.org>
Cc:        freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ports/75348: Tomcat port overwrites server.xml config file
Message-ID:  <20041222045527.GA33844@arabica.esil.univ-mrs.fr>
In-Reply-To: <20041222042140.GA19026@rcfile.org>
References:  <200412211740.iBLHeUcw090127@freefall.freebsd.org> <20041221184340.GA14170@rcfile.org> <37919c31041221110775dc0396@mail.gmail.com> <20041221193221.GA14792@rcfile.org> <41C87FC4.4070803@homeboyz.org> <20041221234347.GA16825@rcfile.org> <41C8BDBC.4050801@homeboyz.org> <20041222010827.GA17485@rcfile.org> <20041222035237.GA32596@arabica.esil.univ-mrs.fr> <20041222042140.GA19026@rcfile.org>

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[ Brent reminded me of a previous message he sent to this list with an
approach based on checksums from the packing list [1] ]

On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 11:21:40PM -0500, Brent Verner wrote:
>   See an earlier email I sent today.  The attached script has
> a line of pkg_info commands that do exactly what you describe
> above using the checksum from the package being replaced.
> 
>   The script is not ready for real use, but it does know how
> to answer the big question :-)

Indeed. If we don't need the diff feature (to help user merge the
changes), then this is an efficient approach. The only problem I see
here is that the whole packing list will be checked for md5 conformance
when we only need information regarding the configuration files. Still I
don't think it's a big flaw...

Herve


[1] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-java/2004-December/003264.html



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