From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 16 16:20:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from yowie.cc.uq.edu.au (yowie.cc.uq.edu.au [130.102.2.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFBE137B403; Tue, 16 Oct 2001 16:20:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from there (gs891mmwkj9qhz9k@noodle.cc.uq.edu.au [130.102.128.222]) by yowie.cc.uq.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id JAA13142; Wed, 17 Oct 2001 09:20:04 +1000 (GMT+1000) Message-Id: <200110162320.JAA13142@yowie.cc.uq.edu.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Christopher Smith Organization: Information Technology Services, University of Queensland To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mergemaster -- whats the best way? Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 09:20:03 +1000 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <001301c15671$6b2effe0$252da818@sioux> <20011016220800.B55640@dansat.data-plan.com> <20011016152927.0cc816e3.djb@unixan.com> In-Reply-To: <20011016152927.0cc816e3.djb@unixan.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [chomp] > Perhaps each installation performed via mergemaster can create a > plain-text list of MD5 checksums each time it installs new files, and > these files are automatically replaced during the next upgrade. To be > sure first-time upgprades to -RELEASE series occur easily, perhaps > installation media should start including such MD5 checksums. > > Personally, I was thinking of hacking this feature into my own copies of > mergemaster some time in the medium future. =) How about an option to specify a list of files to exclude from the comparison ? That way, if -i is specified they are always copied over the existing files and if not, they are omitted from any comparison altogether. (This is something I've been half working on myself for a while now - I simply haven't been motivated enough to finish it - not enough upgrades to annoy me :). The MD5 checksums is a good idea as well, and definitely preferable from a newbie's perspective as they are less likely to know which files to specify on the ignore list. P'raps even merge both ideas into one - a "preprocessor" that does the file comparisons to find files modified since install that then passes those files in an exclusion list... -- Christopher Smith, Systems Administrator. Server & Security Group, Information Technology Services. The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, 4072. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message