Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 19:14:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Lamont Granquist <lamont@scriptkiddie.org> To: Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: RE: mergemaster tips Message-ID: <20030430190355.D5470@coredump.scriptkiddie.org> In-Reply-To: <20030420151937.V631@znfgre.tberna.bet> References: <004901c30780$5347d250$0200a8c0@travel> <20030420151937.V631@znfgre.tberna.bet>
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Is there any way to get mergemaster to automagically 'i'nstall over files that you haven't touched without any user intervention? I guess the problem here is that mergemaster is only designed to have access to the currently checked out copy of /usr/src/etc, so it doesn't know what state the file 'should' be in, is that correct? What'd be really nice would be if mergemaster could automagically merge the changes that you've made on the system with the changes from the previous CVS version. Obviously you could get a conflict and have to manually merge the changes, but in a lot of cases this could probably be minimized... ... Could you have mergemaster save copies of the pristine /usr/src/etc files locally on the system somewhere (in /var?) when it finishes? Then use that the next time it runs to figure out more stuff that it can do automagically? On Sun, 20 Apr 2003, Doug Barton wrote: > On Sun, 20 Apr 2003, Anton Zavrin wrote: > > I don't understand what is written in man pages about mergemaster, > > that's the thing... > > Ok, can you give me an example of something that you don't understand? I > tried to be quite thorough in the man page, but if people don't understand > it, it's not doing its job. > > > But thanks for the tip anyway, that was a good one ;-) > > Glad to help. > > Doug > > -- > > This .signature sanitized for your protection > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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