From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 30 13:57:35 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 948C116A41F for ; Fri, 30 Sep 2005 13:57:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B459F43D48 for ; Fri, 30 Sep 2005 13:57:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (ppp219-232.lns1.adl2.internode.on.net [203.122.219.232]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j8UDvDh9037785 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO); Fri, 30 Sep 2005 23:27:21 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 23:26:59 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <20050929224548.GB3035@comp.chem.msu.su> <200509301041.10480.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <433CFD16.6060200@ashleymoran.me.uk> In-Reply-To: <433CFD16.6060200@ashleymoran.me.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart102554671.ZHddrDvl2P"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200509302327.00537.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: 0.05 () FORGED_RCVD_HELO X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.51 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: Ashley Moran Subject: Re: A smarter mergemaster X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 13:57:35 -0000 --nextPart102554671.ZHddrDvl2P Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Friday 30 September 2005 18:23, Ashley Moran wrote: > > It does have problems handling DB files, but that is usually not a big > > problem to fix. > > I read about etcmerge in BSD Hacks and there's been no going back for > me. It seems pretty stable even though it's not been updated for a good > while. Is there any chance it will ever make it into the FreeBSD core > system? It sure would be nice :) One thing would be to have automatically fetched etc directories so when yo= u=20 ran it for the first time it would grab a release version of etc for you :) Hmm.. I'll try and add that if I get some time I think! =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart102554671.ZHddrDvl2P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDPUQs5ZPcIHs/zowRArZ+AJ4/gl1oyecnShM/XztjC/V4+fmRjwCgnEdz dLEbYei7myn0M3Z4+/YJf7g= =TCaP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart102554671.ZHddrDvl2P--