Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 09:06:52 +0200 From: Marwan Burelle <Marwan.Burelle@lri.fr> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6.0 RC1 usbd.conf (and installation comments) Message-ID: <20051026070652.GB440@pc5-179.lri.fr> In-Reply-To: <200510260046.j9Q0khYU004317@app.auscert.org.au> References: <200510260046.j9Q0khYU004317@app.auscert.org.au>
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--4SFOXa2GPu3tIq4H Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 10:46:43AM +1000, Joel Hatton wrote: > most files in /etc/rc.d changed, so installing them all with > mergemaster was laborious - a note in UPDATING similar to that for > 5.x: >=20 > "The simplest solution is an 'rm -rf /etc/rc.d/*' and then > 'mergemaster -i'." >=20 > would have reminded me to do just that and saved about 10 minutes > of clicking 'q', then 'i' :) I did, in this case, run mergemaster > -i, but didn't think to do the above. On this note, I still can't > work out how to use the edit-merge part of mergemaster properly, > but it is certainly a pebkac issue. Just a few words on that point ... after some use of mergemaster, it seems to me that a big part of /etc have to be update blindly for most users (things in rc.d, and some other places where there's files that haven't to changed or that are system script that most users won't modify.) I hadn't time to add a possibility for mergemaster to perform blind updates of such files[1], but it seems not so complicated to do so. Does anyone else thinks that's an interesting idea ? [1] : providing a list of directories and/or files to mergemaster for which blind updates could be perform, for example ... --=20 Burelle Marwan, Equipe Bases de Donnees - LRI http://www.cduce.org (burelle@lri.fr | Marwan.Burelle@ens.fr) --4SFOXa2GPu3tIq4H Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDXysMI+2UvUKfgvgRAuXLAJ9xx1hQTx17F96dSR/oAVnDhOweVgCfXB6Y 0cYUf12K6sZ4DTy1RdhaFVA= =eNg7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --4SFOXa2GPu3tIq4H--
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