Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 01:03:06 +0200 (CEST) From: Marc Schneiders <marc@schneiders.org> To: Doug Barton <DougB@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Mergemaster Request (RE: mergemaster tips) Message-ID: <20030421003459.M36869-100000@voo.doo.net> In-Reply-To: <20030420151937.V631@znfgre.tberna.bet>
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On Sun, 20 Apr 2003, at 15:22 [=GMT-0700], Doug Barton wrote: > Ok, can you give me an example of something that you don't understand? I > tried to be quite thorough in the man page, And you are. I just read it for the first time after using mergemaster for 3 or 4 years, and I learned a lot. As a result I set up a script to back up my old /etc to some subdir by date and time and run that through the mergemaster option to run something before it. I thought this was clever, but I now see this isn't good enough. I do not want to get an archive, in addition to normal backups, of a complete 10 MB /etc directory each time I upgrade. So here is the feature request: Is it possible to have a new option in mergemaster: -b (path) Make a backup of every file that mergemaster overwrites, whether on user input or automatically. Mergemaster writes the files in a directory with a timestamp name (YYYYMMDD-HHMMSS) under the path indicated. This would give us an archive of the config changes on the machine. I do not have enough scripting to squeeze this into mergemaster myself. Nothing near it.
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