From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 27 19:51:16 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org 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 5F79916A401 for ; Mon, 27 Mar 2006 19:51:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx21.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 41C4543D7C for ; Mon, 27 Mar 2006 19:51:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 70023 invoked by uid 399); 27 Mar 2006 19:51:00 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ?192.168.1.100?) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 27 Mar 2006 19:51:00 -0000 Message-ID: <4428421D.4060101@FreeBSD.org> Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 11:50:53 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Watson , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, Ruslan Ermilov , Steve Kargl References: <20060320221741.GA13699@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20060320230009.GA55254@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20060320231604.GH83781@ip.net.ua> <20060320232746.GI83781@ip.net.ua> <20060320234006.GV35129@funkthat.com> <20060320234145.GB33003@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20060321064528.GD77849@ip.net.ua> <44206E9F.6020702@FreeBSD.org> <20060327093402.H43553@fledge.watson.org> <20060327185752.GG7001@funkthat.com> In-Reply-To: <20060327185752.GG7001@funkthat.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: mergemaster broken? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 19:51:16 -0000 John-Mark Gurney wrote: > Robert Watson wrote this message on Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 09:38 +0000: >> So while I don't have opinions about the implementation details, I think >> what Ruslan is proposing is architecturally the right thing. How to handle >> the command line argument, I don't have an opinion, except that user >> surprise is bad, so a new argument with some compatibility and a warning is >> probably better than changing "-m". > > Why not detect etc as the last component of -m and print a nice little > warning, and then remove /etc from the path? (or adding .. if we end > up with an empty path).. and after a year or so, remove the warning > and the compat code... That's basically the direction I'm looking at right now. > I doubt people are doing something really crazy > like making foobarbaz a symlink to etc, and depending upon that.. If > they are, they get what the deserve... My concern is more people who have scripted solutions that include the -m argument, but I'm sure that we can make this work. Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection