From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 19 21:29:34 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 53C2F16A4CE for ; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 21:29:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from mx.nsu.ru (mx.nsu.ru [212.192.164.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3B9043D3F for ; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 21:29:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fjoe@iclub.nsu.ru) Received: from mail by mx.nsu.ru with drweb-scanned (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AiocC-0004EA-00; Tue, 20 Jan 2004 11:39:52 +0600 Received: from iclub.nsu.ru ([193.124.215.97] ident=root) by mx.nsu.ru with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AiocB-0004CR-00; Tue, 20 Jan 2004 11:39:51 +0600 Received: from iclub.nsu.ru (fjoe@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by iclub.nsu.ru (8.12.8p2/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i0K5TNNA079719; Tue, 20 Jan 2004 11:29:23 +0600 (NS) (envelope-from fjoe@iclub.nsu.ru) Received: (from fjoe@localhost) by iclub.nsu.ru (8.12.8p2/8.12.8/Submit) id i0K5TL9l079715; Tue, 20 Jan 2004 11:29:21 +0600 (NS) Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 11:29:20 +0600 From: Max Khon To: Matteo Riondato Message-ID: <20040120052920.GA79555@iclub.nsu.ru> References: <400C012E.4040002@mail.ru> <400C0E5F.5010606@potentialtech.com> <400C16BB.8080908@mail.ru> <1074536221.704.8.camel@kaiser.sig11.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1074536221.704.8.camel@kaiser.sig11.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Envelope-To: rionda@gufi.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org 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: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 05:29:34 -0000 Hello! On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 07:17:01PM +0100, Matteo Riondato wrote: > > If the file exists only in /etc, ask whether to delete it. > > This means that mergemaster will everytime ask wether you > want to delete rc.conf, fstab, and (may be) others file that > you surely don't want to be deleted. A list with files for which this question will not be asked with reasonable defaults can be defined. And I still do not like maintainer's approach to 'always-overwrite' problem. I certainly do not want to delete /etc/rc.* (except /etc/rc.conf) before running mergemaster -i so that he will not ask me whether I want to update them. /fjoe