Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 14:32:52 +0000 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: John and Jennifer Reynolds <jjreynold@home.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: useful addition to mergemaster (patch included)? Message-ID: <200001121432.OAA00764@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> of "Tue, 11 Jan 2000 11:37:55 %2B0200." <97595.947583475@axl.noc.iafrica.com>
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> On Mon, 10 Jan 2000 22:21:32 MST, John and Jennifer Reynolds wrote:
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> > So, I made a quick hack to mergemaster so it would recognize a new
> > "rc" variable called IGNORE_FILE. This file is a list of files
> > mergemaster should ignore, or not compare. One filename per line.
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> I've been meaning to do something like this for a while, because I also
> thought it'd be useful. Thanks!
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> I've passed your patch on to the mergemaster maintainers.
Wouldn't a more generic always-do-X-to-this-file be better - perhaps
maintained in a config file - say /etc/mergemaster.conf:
Delete etc/mail/sendmail.cf
Delete etc/motd
Install etc/defaults/*
> Ciao,
> Sheldon.
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