From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 19 13:14:27 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E89B016A4CE for ; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 13:14:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from dsl-mail.kamp.net (mail.kamp-dsl.de [195.62.99.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 83C3043D5E for ; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 13:14:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from root@pukruppa.de) Received: (qmail 4138 invoked by uid 505); 19 Jan 2004 21:19:45 -0000 Received: from root@pukruppa.de by dsl-mail by uid 89 with qmail-scanner-1.14 (spamassassin: 2.43. Clear:SA:0(0.0/5.0):. Processed in 0.298277 secs); 19 Jan 2004 21:19:45 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 Received: from unknown (HELO reverse-213-146-114-24.dialin.kamp-dsl.de) (213.146.114.24) by dsl-mail.kamp.net with SMTP; 19 Jan 2004 21:19:45 -0000 Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 22:17:44 +0100 (CET) From: Peter Ulrich Kruppa X-X-Sender: root@pukruppa.net To: Bill Moran In-Reply-To: <400C0E5F.5010606@potentialtech.com> Message-ID: <20040119221449.W1109@pukruppa.net> References: <400C012E.4040002@mail.ru> <400C0E5F.5010606@potentialtech.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: rihad cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: question on mergemaster X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 21:14:28 -0000 On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, Bill Moran wrote: > If mergemaster checked each file for a magic value, such as: > # mergemaster autoreplace > and automatically updated those files without prompting the user, then > users could add such a line to the beginning of each file in /etc that > they are comfortable updating without feedback. It may seem like a lot > of work, but it's only done _once_ (although mergemaster would need to > be taught to preserve this magic when it updates the file) > > The optimistic way to do this would be to have some sort of switch to > mergemaster to tell it to go into autoupdate mode, and it will only ask > for files that contain a "negative magic" like: > # mergemaster noautoreplace > In which case the administrator should put this string at the beginning > of every file that he tweaks in /etc > > Comments? What about a file "mergemaster_ignore" where I put in the six or seven names of files that should never be touched? Regards, Uli. > > -- > Bill Moran > Potential Technologies > http://www.potentialtech.com > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > +---------------------------+ | Peter Ulrich Kruppa | | Wuppertal | | Germany | +---------------------------+