From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jun 5 9:37:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from gimili.netgraphe.com (corporate-surfer.videotron.net [199.84.249.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D7FC37B403 for ; Wed, 5 Jun 2002 09:37:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from fifi@localhost) by gimili.netgraphe.com (8.11.5/8.11.2) id g55GcOv12462; Wed, 5 Jun 2002 12:38:24 -0400 (EDT) From: Guezou Philippe Message-Id: <200206051638.g55GcOv12462@gimili.netgraphe.com> Subject: Re: mergemaster broken? In-Reply-To: <200206051558.g55Fwcn53072@vashon.polstra.com> from John Polstra at "Jun 5, 2002 08:58:38 am" To: John Polstra Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 12:38:24 -0400 (EDT) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, bde@zeta.org.au X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL70 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UNKNOWN-8BIT Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > The trouble is, those messages vanish in about 1 millisecond when the > pager fires up and displays the next set of diffs. The messages are > effectively invisible on my system, and I only found them by running > mergemaster under "script". Of course, Bruce, I have no doubt that > you can see them on your Teletype Model 37. ;-) If you are using syscons terminal, you should be able to see previous output by pressing the "scroll lock" key, then page-up/page-down (and cursors keys). that's pretty usefull on a 80x24 terminal :) > > If mergemaster depends on perl and perl is not installed, it should be > a fatal error which terminates mergemaster immediately. It doesn't > make any sense to proceed if the merged files cannot be installed. In fact, IMHO, it doesn't make sense at all to have mergemaster depending on perl.. Since it's a system tools, it should use only sh/awk scripting.. my 2 cents.. fifi... > > John > -- > John Polstra > John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA > "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Chögyam Trungpa -- Guezou Philippe Net. Sys. Admin. Buying an operating system without source is like buying a self-assembly Space Shuttle with no instructions. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message