Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1999 01:09:46 -0800 From: Doug Barton <DougB@simplenet.com> To: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CVSUP & buildworld Message-ID: <383F9FDA.261D648F@simplenet.com> References: <3819DE31.5DE5344A@nisser.com> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910300041040.17853-100000@propro.oldserver.demon.nl> <7vetpk$2p2t$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de>
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Christian Weisgerber wrote:
>
> Marc Schneiders <marc@oldserver.demon.nl> wrote:
>
> [mergemaster]
> > I personally prefer to do it by hand. One slip of the finger and
> > mergemaster has removed a file you do not want to loose...
>
> mergemaster will only remove files in the temproot. The most harm
> you can do is overwriting a customized file under /etc with the
> distributed version. This is also a non-issue if you make a backup
> copy of /etc beforehand.
Quite right.
> I'm considering porting mergemaster to OpenBSD.
If you do, please let me know what has to be changed, and perhaps we can
work together on making it more cross-platform. I've never run either of
the other 'BSD's, so I'm not really familiar with the issues there, but
hard disk is cheap nowadays... :)
Thanks to everyone who contributed helpful comments and kind words about
the script in this thread.
Doug
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