Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 17:07:20 -0700 From: "Robert L Sowders" <rsowders@usgs.gov> To: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> Cc: Christopher Smith <drsmithy@mailbox.uq.edu.au>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mergemaster -- whats the best way? Message-ID: <OFF9F214A9.B4966260-ON88256AE8.00006EE9@wr.usgs.gov>
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I not sure I'm following your thoughts here, I thought the
/etc/defaults/rc.conf should never be modified by the user and
/etc/rc.conf is not touched by mergemaster so I don't really see how it
applies here.
Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu>
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10/16/2001 04:43 PM
To: Christopher Smith <drsmithy@mailbox.uq.edu.au>
cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: mergemaster -- whats the best way?
On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Christopher Smith wrote:
> [chomp]
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> 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...
>
The problem with ignoring modified files is that you modify (for example)
/etc/group when you add a user, but sometimes there's a new "system"
group that needs to be added (for example, the network group was added
a few years ago). Changes get made to /etc/defaults/rc.conf that require
changes to /etc/rc.conf; also the /etc/.ssh stuff. So leaving modified
files alone is not a complete solution.
Annelise
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I not sure I'm following your thoughts here, I thought the /etc/defaults/rc.conf should never be modified by the user and /etc/rc.conf is not touched by mergemaster so I don't really see how it applies here.</font>
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<br><font size=1 face="sans-serif">Sent by: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG</font>
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<br><font size=1 face="sans-serif"> To: Christopher Smith <drsmithy@mailbox.uq.edu.au></font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Christopher Smith wrote:<br>
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> [chomp]<br>
> <br>
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> <br>
> P'raps even merge both ideas into one - a "preprocessor" that does the file <br>
> comparisons to find files modified since install that then passes those <br>
> files in an exclusion list...<br>
> <br>
The problem with ignoring modified files is that you modify (for example)<br>
/etc/group when you add a user, but sometimes there's a new "system"<br>
group that needs to be added (for example, the network group was added<br>
a few years ago). Changes get made to /etc/defaults/rc.conf that require<br>
changes to /etc/rc.conf; also the /etc/.ssh stuff. So leaving modified<br>
files alone is not a complete solution.<br>
<br>
Annelise <br>
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