Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 09:14:23 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Cc: cvs-src@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What we keep under /etc (was: cvs commit: src/etc rc rc.shutdown src/etc/rc.d ...) Message-ID: <200410110914.24398.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20041010103151.GA47927@gothmog.gr> References: <20041009114544.080344bd@dev.lan.Awfulhak.org> <20041010031208L.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> <20041010103151.GA47927@gothmog.gr>
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--nextPart2250060.DjpjjztTTW Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 20:01, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > The overwriting of some directories in /etc can be made optional and > default to off (keeping the current behavior, but allowing faster updates > of a part of /etc for those who want it), if that's what's worrying you. > > We could add an option to mergemaster like -f which would take a list of > /etc subdirectories to blindly overwrite, i.e.: > > # mergemaster -f "rc.d periodic defaults isdn" > > To avoid having to type manually the list of directories, this could also > be made optional based on an environment variable like > MM_OVERWRITE_SUBDIRS, in which case the order of precedence would be: Or import etcmerge :) etcmerge isn't perfect, but I think effort would be better expended making = it=20 more user friendly (I'm thinking specifically of guiding the user through=20 things more explicitly) =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart2250060.DjpjjztTTW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBBaclY5ZPcIHs/zowRAtWeAJ9gwWbMu5Jemo4/KoyNfEi8K1Cl7gCghT58 Qha6K9HWMS9LS30yQ8cGMb0= =F9Ni -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2250060.DjpjjztTTW--
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