From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jan 28 21:22:35 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from lists.blarg.net (lists.blarg.net [206.124.128.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4131837B419 for ; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 21:22:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from thig.blarg.net (thig.blarg.net [206.124.128.18]) by lists.blarg.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB22DBD3A; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 21:22:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([206.124.139.115]) by thig.blarg.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA13624; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 21:22:31 -0800 Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.3) id g0T5QhF01919; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 21:26:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@blarg.net) To: "C J Michaels" Cc: Subject: Re: Proposed Solution To Recent "firewall_enable" Thread. [Please Read] References: <20020128192930.GA86720@student.uu.se> <1913.216.153.202.59.1012249133.squirrel@www1.27in.tv> From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 28 Jan 2002 21:26:43 -0800 In-Reply-To: <1913.216.153.202.59.1012249133.squirrel@www1.27in.tv> Message-ID: <0p3d0pn2wc.d0p@localhost.localdomain> Lines: 14 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Here's a top-of-the-head "solution" to this kind of problem in general: Make "mergemaster" smarter so that it could be easily told to warn people about changes in the existence or behavior of config file variables and fields and values as it processed the corresponding file. P.S. I'd like to see it smarter about other things too, mainly to work off the data, not the text, so that it wouldn't care if I rearranged things or added comments, etc, but this would require lots of duplicating of parsers (unless the whole config file "1001 Formats" thing is cleaned up). Also the ability to show the changes to the distributed config files instead of the differences between those and mine. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message