From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Aug 22 21:12:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from sanson.reyes.somos.net (freyes.static.inch.com [216.223.199.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F17DB37B43E for ; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 21:12:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tomasa (tomasa.reyes.somos.net [10.0.0.11]) by sanson.reyes.somos.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id AAA27522; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 00:03:48 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from fran@reyes.somos.net) Message-Id: <200008230403.AAA27522@sanson.reyes.somos.net> From: "Francisco Reyes" To: "Brandon D. Valentine" Cc: "Brian Somers" , "Doug Barton" , "Doug Barton" , "FreeBSD stable" , "Gerhard Sittig" , "Jason T" , "Peter Jeremy" Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 23:46:17 -0400 Reply-To: "Francisco Reyes" X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.10.2010) For Windows 98 (4.10.2222) In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: remove empty TEMPROOT dirs at mergemaster's end? (was: cvs commit:src/usr.sbin/mergemaster mergemaster.sh) Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 22 Aug 2000 23:50:29 -0400 (EDT), Brandon D. Valentine wrote: >I would think that in keeping with POLA /etc/defaults should be merged >without questions anyway. That is one case, although probably not the only one. >hasn't changed and upgrade it automatically? In fact, maybe that should >just be part of the installworld. That is one way to think of it, but I am one for flexibility. If someone is stubborn enough that they want to mess around the files on that directory then we should let them be. I like the flexibility that mergemater gives us. >I do like your idea of allowing >specific mergemaster exceptions, perhaps in a mergemaster.conf file, Yes that is the best approach. >course you've got to decide where to put it since it would traditionally >live under /etc and get upgraded while mergemaster is running. ;-) This shouldn't be a problem. Read the existing file off from /etc/.. put the content on memory and process the rest. When it get's to /etc/mergemater.conf it will treat it as any other file.. francisco Moderator of the Corporate BSD list http://www.egroups.com/group/BSD_Corporate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message