From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 22 20:17:42 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2D7D37B401 for ; Sun, 22 Jun 2003 20:17:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx1.evo6.net (mx1.evo6.net [80.76.194.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8230443F3F for ; Sun, 22 Jun 2003 20:17:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andy@evo6.org) Received: (qmail 76894 invoked from network); 23 Jun 2003 03:17:40 -0000 Received: from vx.dhcp.evo6.net (HELO vx) (10.0.1.2) by mx1.evo6.net with SMTP; 23 Jun 2003 03:17:40 -0000 Message-ID: <002301c33935$f8335730$0201000a@vx> From: "Andy Gilligan" To: References: <000701c33934$61af58f0$0201000a@vx> Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 04:17:25 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Subject: Re: mergemaster -i X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 03:17:43 -0000 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andy Gilligan" To: Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 4:06 AM Subject: Re: mergemaster -i > > > Can't there be an option in mergemaster to automatically force > > "i" for every file, in addition to files that dont exist in /etc? > > In that case, would it not be much simpler to just copy everything > from /var/tmp/temproot/etc/, and not run mergemaster at all? I should know better than to compose emails at 4am. :) I should have said: run mergemaster, then quit after it 'creates' /var/tmp/temproot - then copy the files. Obviously you don't have the temproot until you run mergemaster :) -Andy