From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 21 18:54:45 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 540B016A4CE for ; Sun, 21 Dec 2003 18:54:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from saturn.criticalmagic.com (saturn.criticalmagic.com [68.213.16.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6E1143D5E for ; Sun, 21 Dec 2003 18:54:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from richardcoleman@mindspring.com) Received: from mindspring.com (titan.criticalmagic.com [68.213.16.23]) by saturn.criticalmagic.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B63893BD2A; Sun, 21 Dec 2003 21:54:39 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3FE65CFF.2000102@mindspring.com> Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 21:54:55 -0500 From: Richard Coleman Organization: Critical Magic, Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bruce M Simpson References: <20031221084531.GB31516@cactus.homeunix.org> <20031221105925.GA1713@utgard.lodz.mm.pl> <1072018131.715.10.camel@localhost> <3FE5B804.6000707@ispro.net.tr> <20031221154129.GE2228@saboteur.dek.spc.org> In-Reply-To: <20031221154129.GE2228@saboteur.dek.spc.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Ryan Sommers cc: jqdkf@army.com cc: Evren Yurtesen cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mergemaster feature suggestion... X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: richardcoleman@mindspring.com List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 02:54:45 -0000 Bruce M Simpson wrote: >>mergemaster always asks if you want to install a file which doesnt exist >>in /etc already. Why cant it also ask for removing a file which doesnt >>exist in sources? Then the user can decide if he/she needs that file or >>not then remove it safely. > > > If you'd taken the time to read the list archives you'd have noticed that > this very question had been addressed in an earlier thread within the past > 6 weeks. And the root cause was the same. > > The 'officially sanctioned' upgrade path is a binary upgrade or fresh install, > unless you're a developer, or just someone who enjoys an interesting life. > > BMS Well, regardless of what is the official method, it doesn't mean we (as developers) need to make life hard for ourselves. There are a couple times I would have found such a feature in mergemaster to be useful (mainly as a sanity check). It's not a showstopper, just a "nice to have". Of course, this is no replacement for not reading UPDATING or following the mailing list. I think that is Bruce's main point. Richard Coleman richardcoleman@mindspring.com