From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 13 08:56:24 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D71316A4CE for ; Fri, 13 May 2005 08:56:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.iinet.net.au (mail-05.iinet.net.au [203.59.3.37]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7906943D94 for ; Fri, 13 May 2005 08:56:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: (qmail 22189 invoked from network); 13 May 2005 08:56:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.1.1.4?) (203.59.87.113) by mail.iinet.net.au with SMTP; 13 May 2005 08:56:21 -0000 Message-ID: <42846BB4.30302@elischer.org> Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 01:56:20 -0700 From: Julian Elischer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050424 X-Accept-Language: en, hu MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Denis Peplin References: <427743ED.6020200@FreeBSD.org> <200505062338.45418.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <427B8317.2030606@FreeBSD.org> <200505070037.10431.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <428464F6.2020005@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <428464F6.2020005@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mergemaster improvement (auto-update for not modified files) X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 08:56:24 -0000 Denis Peplin wrote: > Hello! > > Daniel O'Connor wrote: > >>>>You don't need to download anything to start using etcmerge, you can just >>>>use the files from your last mergemaster. >>> >>>For etcmerge it is need to run mergemaster "one last time", or use >>>etc archive for some release. So if mergemaster will be improved, >>>it will be better for etcmerge :) >> >> >>Well, you can use etcmerge if you haven't changed anything in /etc - ie on a >>fresh install. > > I made another patch to mergemaster > http://people.freebsd.org/~den/scripts/mergemaster/mergemaster-check-store.diff > It poorly tested and have known problems, so it is not recommended for > now, but shows how simular functionality can be included into > mergemaster (with this patch mergemaster can collect some checksums > itself). Unfortunately, this will help only on further updates. that would be enough I run it every few weeks and anything that sped it up would be appreciated. >