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On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 07:37:04PM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> Not in the absence of stat(1) :-(.  As an alternative, maybe ls(1)
> could grow an option to spit out the mode in octal - assuming there
> are any spare opton letters left.  The simplest solution would seem
> to be to MFC stat(1) to 4.x.  The only other alternative would be a
> (messy) awk script to convert the mode letters in 'ls -l' output to
> an octal number.

Or recommending that people that want to run a perl-less system on 4.x
use etcmerge (/usr/ports/sysutils/etcmerge/) instead of mergemaster.
This solves the problem, *and* gives them less work (3-way instead of
2-way merge) ;-)  

BTW: etcmerge has grown easier to bootstrap - I've provided tarballs of 
just /etc for our last few releases.  (If anybody can help me with
trustworthy tarballs of just the etc partion of bin/base from previous
releases, I'm interested - the actual releases does not seem easily
available on the cluster.)

Eivind.