From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 13 10:26:26 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 13 10:26:24 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n37.san.rr.com (dt051n37.san.rr.com [204.210.32.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4E7737B402 for ; Wed, 13 Dec 2000 10:26:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from FreeBSD.org (Studded@master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n37.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA75827; Wed, 13 Dec 2000 10:26:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from DougB@FreeBSD.org) Sender: doug@dt051n37.san.rr.com Message-ID: <3A37BF4E.480AE623@FreeBSD.org> Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 10:26:22 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Meyer Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: mergemaster References: <14901.27724.457583.502180@guru.mired.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Meyer wrote: > I suggested one way of doing that to the author, but never got a reply > back. The idea was to add an option that does two things: 1) installs > new files r/o (but not merged files); 2) if files are installed r/o, > quietly install the new one. Well, I thought sure I replied to you on this one, if I didn't, I apologize. This won't work for several reasons. First, it's too complicated. Second, it relies on the absence of user error, which is a really bad assumption. Third, messing with people's file permissions is a really bad idea, as I learned recently with my mtree experiment. > The act of editing a file should leave it r/w, thus automatically > tagging new files. No, actually. There is nothing about editing a file that should change its permissions with any reputable editor. > And it wouldn't work for me :-(, so I haven't implemented it. Case closed then. :) Doug -- So what I want to know is, where does the RED brick road go? Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message