From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Aug 23 21:56:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from sanson.reyes.somos.net (freyes.static.inch.com [216.223.199.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4408437B42C for ; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 21:56:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tomasa (tomasa.reyes.somos.net [10.0.0.11]) by sanson.reyes.somos.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id AAA31575; Thu, 24 Aug 2000 00:48:07 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from fran@reyes.somos.net) Message-Id: <200008240448.AAA31575@sanson.reyes.somos.net> From: "Francisco Reyes" To: "Doug Barton" Cc: "FreeBSD Stable List" Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 00:57:31 -0400 Reply-To: "Francisco Reyes" X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.10.2010) For Windows 98 (4.10.2222) In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Mergemaster exception list Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 23 Aug 2000 12:17:43 -0700 (PDT), Doug Barton wrote: >Or worse, complete inability to reach the box in the case of a >remote upgrade. This is just about the best example I've seen in recent >days of why I feel justified in "enforcing" the policy of making the >administrator LOOK at the changes before installing. I understand your point, but this still doesn't change that this is "your" view of how things should be done. Each person/machine/situation has it's own set of needs. some people do remote upgrades... many others never will. For the majority of people who never even read the man pages for a particular software they will get the default behavior. For the rest of us an exception list is what we woud like. I am thinking I am going to do a "pre mergemaster" script. It would read a file in the form: D /some file C /some other file M /original /copy to D = delete from TEMPROOT location C = copy from TEMPROOT to production location M = move the file from TEMPROOT to arbitrary location. francisco Moderator of the Corporate BSD list http://www.egroups.com/group/BSD_Corporate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message