From owner-cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 11 06:54:10 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-src@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6C0E16A4CE for ; Mon, 11 Oct 2004 06:54:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: from woozle.rinet.ru (woozle.rinet.ru [195.54.192.68]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 293F443D55 for ; Mon, 11 Oct 2004 06:54:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from marck@rinet.ru) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woozle.rinet.ru (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id i9B6rjb2094900; Mon, 11 Oct 2004 10:53:46 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from marck@rinet.ru) Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 10:53:45 +0400 (MSD) From: Dmitry Morozovsky To: "Daniel O'Connor" In-Reply-To: <200410110914.24398.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Message-ID: <20041011105104.P93998@woozle.rinet.ru> References: <20041009114544.080344bd@dev.lan.Awfulhak.org> <20041010031208L.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> <20041010103151.GA47927@gothmog.gr> <200410110914.24398.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-NCC-RegID: ru.rinet MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: src-committers@freebsd.org cc: brian@awfulhak.org cc: cvs-all@freebsd.org cc: Makoto Matsushita cc: Giorgos Keramidas cc: cvs-src@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What we keep under /etc (was: cvs commit: src/etc rcrc.shutdown src/etc/rc.d ...) X-BeenThere: cvs-src@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the src tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 06:54:10 -0000 On Mon, 11 Oct 2004, Daniel O'Connor wrote: DO> On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 20:01, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: DO> > The overwriting of some directories in /etc can be made optional and DO> > default to off (keeping the current behavior, but allowing faster updates DO> > of a part of /etc for those who want it), if that's what's worrying you. DO> > DO> > We could add an option to mergemaster like -f which would take a list of DO> > /etc subdirectories to blindly overwrite, i.e.: DO> > DO> > # mergemaster -f "rc.d periodic defaults isdn" DO> > DO> > To avoid having to type manually the list of directories, this could also DO> > be made optional based on an environment variable like DO> > MM_OVERWRITE_SUBDIRS, in which case the order of precedence would be: DO> DO> Or import etcmerge :) DO> DO> etcmerge isn't perfect, but I think effort would be better expended making it DO> more user friendly (I'm thinking specifically of guiding the user through DO> things more explicitly) Well, I did test etcmerge yesterday, and finished with partly broken right to directories with conflict results, namely /etc/mail, /etc/namedb and /etc/uucp: they went to mode 700 after etcmerge install. I have no chance to dig into problem deeply though. Sincerely, D.Marck [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- marck@rinet.ru *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------