From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 10 20:53:28 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BF971065673 for ; Thu, 10 Jun 2010 20:53:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mike.jakubik@intertainservices.com) Received: from mail.intertainservices.com (mail.intertainservices.com [38.99.187.35]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D2C48FC1A for ; Thu, 10 Jun 2010 20:53:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [172.16.10.199] (unknown [172.16.10.199]) by mail.intertainservices.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 2D95156B9A for ; Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:53:25 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4C1150BE.80807@intertainservices.com> Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:53:18 -0400 From: Mike Jakubik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <201006101346.59824.jhb@freebsd.org> <4C113342.7070804@icyb.net.ua> <4C114B8C.70407@intertainservices.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-intertainservices-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-intertainservices-MailScanner-ID: 2D95156B9A.AD9E2 X-intertainservices-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-intertainservices-MailScanner-From: mike.jakubik@intertainservices.com X-Spam-Status: No Subject: Re: RFC: etcupdate tool in base? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 20:53:28 -0000 On 6/10/2010 4:47 PM, Erik Cederstrand wrote: > >> -1 Also. >> >> How does this differ from a "mergemaster -iFU" ? That's pretty much as automated as it can get. >> > I find the ability to do 'etcupdate diff' to quickly get an overview of which changes I have made to a standard installation very useful. > > Looking from the outside, I think the two tools could be merged to a single upgrade tool. I see three uses for such a tool: > > * Show me which local modifications I have, so I can see if they're still relevant for the upgraded system > * Just do all the hard work for me (i.e. mergemaster -iFU) on files I didn't change > * Guide me through merging updates to files I did modify myself (and please, don't ask me innocently if I want to delete my local account when it's 4 AM :-) I may be answering 'yes' in my sleep) > > That actually sounds like a great idea to me.