Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 22:17:39 -0500 From: "Jim C. Nasby" <jim@nasby.net> To: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au> Cc: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mergemaster [was: Re: Ifconfig config of gif tunnels] Message-ID: <20021017221739.A92426@flake.decibel.org> In-Reply-To: <20021016223004.GI32705@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au>; from peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au on Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 08:30:04AM %2B1000 References: <004401c2742a$d6169d90$6501a8c0@VAIO650> <3DAC0045.4060201@Kernick.org> <3DAC163D.1060701@inode.at> <20021016193422.A51167@raven.addict.de> <20021016213038.GH32705@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> <200210162219.g9GMJYEt017521@apollo.backplane.com> <20021016223004.GI32705@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au>
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On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 08:30:04AM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On 2002-Oct-16 15:19:34 -0700, Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> wrote: > > This is not correct. As long as the changes to the /etc/rc* files > > are synchronized with the changes to /etc/defaults/*, the expected > > behavior (at least as close as it is possible to get) will be > > maintained. That's the whole point. > > I agree. My concern was that Juergen was suggesting that mergemaster > invisibly update /etc/defaults/rc.conf - which could easily cause > problems when the sysadmin fails to notice that he needs to make > corresponding changes to his /etc/rc.conf. > What if there was a special string/tag that could be added to a file to tell mergemaster not to silently update it? Or maybe a config file with a list of files not to automatically update. -- Jim C. Nasby (aka Decibel!) jim@nasby.net Member: Triangle Fraternity, Sports Car Club of America Give your computer some brain candy! www.distributed.net Team #1828 Windows: "Where do you want to go today?" Linux: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?" FreeBSD: "Are you guys coming, or what?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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