From owner-freebsd-stable Wed May 16 22:32:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from nisser.com (c0039.upc-c.chello.nl [212.187.0.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F288C37B422 for ; Wed, 16 May 2001 22:32:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roelof@nisser.com) Received: from nisser.com (roelof [10.0.0.2]) by nisser.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id HAA39229 for ; Thu, 17 May 2001 07:32:38 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from roelof@nisser.com) Message-ID: <3B036276.944E19DB@nisser.com> Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 07:32:38 +0200 From: Roelof Osinga Organization: eBOA - Programming the Web X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Administrative tag a possibility? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Being in a cycle of updates I got once again confronted - though assisted by mergemaster - with a series of needless needs to accord administrative changes like: ----- *** Displaying differences between ./etc/gettytab and installed version --- /etc/gettytab Mon Feb 15 11:45:33 1999 +++ ./etc/gettytab Thu May 17 07:15:19 2001 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# $Id: gettytab,v 1.16 1998/09/02 01:34:55 brian Exp $ +# $FreeBSD: src/etc/gettytab,v 1.16.2.1 1999/08/29 14:18:43 peter Exp $ # from: @(#)gettytab 5.14 (Berkeley) 3/27/91 # # Most of the table entries here are just copies of the old getty table, ----- Which got me thinking, dangerous though it may be, would it really not be possible to devise some secret handshake that would allow a tool like mergemaster or even - yeah, I'm stretching concepts - a human to recognize such a change for what it is and act correspondingly? Say introducing a convention like '$!$' to denote an always to be acceptable change? Roelof -- _______________________________________________________________________ eBOAź est. 1982 http://eBOA.com/ tel. +31-58-2123014 mailto:info@eBOA.com?subject=Information_request fax. +31-58-2160293 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message