Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 18:14:21 -0600 From: Mike Porter <mupi@mknet.org> To: stable@freebsd.org Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: About mergemaster (Re: upgrading) Message-ID: <200309221814.26301.mupi@mknet.org> In-Reply-To: <447k404pr5.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <12829.1064235540@thrush.ravenbrook.com> <3F6F0A0C.1060308@rsm.ru> <447k404pr5.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 22 September 2003 12:55 pm, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > far as I can see from the PR database. The mergemaster author didn't > especially like the idea, because he thinks people ought to know how > their computers are configured. > > I'll be happy to take a look at your patches when you get it working. The only problem with this theory is a significant number of the files flagged by mergemaster, the only difference is the cvs version tag (in theory, this shouldn't be happening, since the cvs tag shouldn't update unless something in the file changes, but I have seen this nonetheless. Somewhat along the same lines are files where the only changes are changes to typos in comments, or adding/deleting comments, which have no functional difference on the file itself.). I tend to agree in many of the rest of the cases, but what about files that rarely, if ever, change from update to update? (rc.network, for example, which hasn't changed since July, or how about rc.isdn and rc.i386, which show version lines from early 2001, for more extreme examples) Granted these files won't trigger mergemaster, unless changed (in which case you could generally simply keep your existing file; unless something else changes and you need merge the files. I would strongly support a mechanism for asking for user input: "file rc.network is unchaged from default, but the new version is different. (v)iew/(c)ontinue? [v]" This would give the user the choice to be ignorant, and sometimes, I would choose that, jsut becuase I want to get done (especially if I am merging on the second or third machine, let alone 50 or 100)...also a scripting mechanism to automate installation on multiple machines. well, i've rambled on long enough... mike -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/b5BhY30jZzkECLcRAtsQAJ9wo1a3NDPOok827bssFgvH5x0evACgpnIt N8SiR0CaWBisYAakT1ywuEk= =25GI -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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