From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 12 13:42:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from awfulhak.org (dynamic-9.max4-du-ws.dialnetwork.pavilion.co.uk [212.74.9.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 943C914E1F for ; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 13:42:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org [172.16.0.12]) by awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA35963; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 21:37:44 GMT (envelope-from brian@lan.awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (localhost.lan.Awfulhak.org [127.0.0.1]) by hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA00764; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 14:32:52 GMT (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <200001121432.OAA00764@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.0 09/18/1999 To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: John and Jennifer Reynolds , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: useful addition to mergemaster (patch included)? In-Reply-To: Message from Sheldon Hearn of "Tue, 11 Jan 2000 11:37:55 +0200." <97595.947583475@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 14:32:52 +0000 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > On Mon, 10 Jan 2000 22:21:32 MST, John and Jennifer Reynolds wrote: > > > 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. > > I've been meaning to do something like this for a while, because I also > thought it'd be useful. Thanks! > > 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. -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message