From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 13 9:20:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from blizzard.sabbo.net (ns.sabbo.net [193.193.218.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEF4737B71A for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 09:20:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sobomax@FreeBSD.org) Received: from vic.sabbo.net (root@vic.sabbo.net [193.193.218.112]) by blizzard.sabbo.net (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id f2DHK5G20251; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 19:20:06 +0200 Received: from FreeBSD.org (big_brother.vega.com [192.168.1.1]) by vic.sabbo.net (8.11.3/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f2DHK9e12382; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 19:20:09 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from sobomax@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: <3AAE56B0.AB7D2E99@FreeBSD.org> Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 19:19:44 +0200 From: Maxim Sobolev Organization: Vega International Capital X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: uk,ru,en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Martin Blapp Cc: Julian Elischer , current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Proposal to mergemaster References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Martin Blapp wrote: > Hi, > > > If you didn't change a file and it was at 1.45 > > then if the new one is at 1.55 > > you should just install it. Since you didn't touch it at 1.45 you will probably > > not want to touch it at 1.55 either. > > yes, of course. but I don't see your point. Am I missing something ? > > How can you see it hasn't been changed ? Version numbers do not tell > anything, an md5 checksum will prove 100% that a files has been modified > or not. md5 sound like an overkill to me. Configuration files are text files, so diff(1) is more appropriate here. -Maxim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message