From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 28 09:05:06 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA11710 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 09:05:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dt050n08.san.rr.com (dt050n08.san.rr.com [204.210.31.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA11699 for ; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 09:05:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Studded@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (master [10.0.0.2]) by dt050n08.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA05957; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 09:04:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Studded@gorean.org) Message-ID: <36B098B5.9545E900@gorean.org> Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 09:04:53 -0800 From: Studded Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jaye Mathisen CC: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mergemaster should be merged in to the main tree. References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jaye Mathisen wrote: > > This utility is too valuable for all the update not to at least have a > mention of it. Thank you. :) The occasional compliment makes the hard work worthwhile. > At the very least, references should be made to it in /usr/src/Makefile as > part of the conversion process, and inthe /usr/src/UPDATING file. I wouldn't object to it being publicized more than it is.. I don't have a /usr/src/UPDATING file though, is that something new in 3.x? > I would be willing to get permission from the author if people think it's > a good idea. *Wave* I don't think putting it in the base is really feasible, since the chances of me getting commit privileges to do that are very small. :) Besides, I would much rather see the installation routine modified to include various things from the ports/packages tree rather than continuing to add (arguably) non-critical things to the base. There are a lot of people who install FreeBSD who don't upgrade very often, and to them something like mergemaster would be bloat. What I'd like to see is a section of sysinstall that asks what the user is going to do with freebsd, and suggests some packages to install. E.g., "Are you planning to upgrade your system on a regular basis?" Ok, here's some things you should install, like cvsup, mergemaster, etc. Doug -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** Like desperadoes waiting for a train . . . To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message