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Date:      Fri, 02 May 2003 16:44:40 +0200
From:      Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
To:        Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/mergemaster mergemaster.sh
Message-ID:  <xzpel3h8l2f.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: <200305020626.h426QNT4044532@repoman.freebsd.org> (Doug Barton's message of "Thu, 1 May 2003 23:26:23 -0700 (PDT)")
References:  <200305020626.h426QNT4044532@repoman.freebsd.org>

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Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> writes:
>   * Add a -P (Preserve) option, which saves a copy of files that you replace.
>   The idea for this option came from Marc Schneiders <marc@schneiders.org>

This should be the default...

>   * Replace the above with a check for elements of the old rc system.
>   Offer to move these files out of DESTDIR/etc for the user's convenience.

How about a more generic mechanism that lists files which exist in
DESTDIR but not in TEMPROOT and offers to remove / rename them?

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org



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