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Date:      Sat, 1 Oct 2005 23:35:38 +0400
From:      Yar Tikhiy <yar@comp.chem.msu.su>
To:        Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: A smarter mergemaster
Message-ID:  <20051001193538.GA27782@comp.chem.msu.su>
In-Reply-To: <20050930213705.95F265D07@ptavv.es.net>
References:  <433CDE35.7040801@FreeBSD.org> <20050930213705.95F265D07@ptavv.es.net>

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On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 02:37:05PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> 
> You just hit on one of my pet peeves with mergemaster! Contrary to what
> you say: "every single default for mergemaster is to do nothing", when a
> file is found in /etc/rc.d that is not in /usr/src/etc/rc.d, the default
> is to delete the file in etc. I think that this is a bad thing(tm). I
> have to restore my profile.sh (which MUST be in /etc/rc.d as it needs to
> be run before /usr is mounted).
> 
> I do have an open PR on this (conf/85449), but it does not seem to have
> gone anywhere other than being assigned to you last Friday. (No, I
> didn't expect anything to happen this quickly. You just gave me such a
> perfect opportunity to gripe!)

FWIW, I wondered if my version of mergemaster in p4 was affected
by this issue and found to my surprise that I had already addressed
it in my changes.

-- 
Yar



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