From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Sep 13 8:29:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from pooh.elsevier.nl (pooh.elsevier.nl [145.36.9.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 589D214D58 for ; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 08:29:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from steveo@iol.ie) Received: from pooh.elsevier.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pooh.elsevier.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA01040; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 16:16:02 +0100 (IST) (envelope-from steveo@iol.ie) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 16:16:02 +0100 (IST) From: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" To: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: Building new kernel fails? Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, Mike Tancsa , Josef Karthauser Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 13-Sep-99 Brad Knowles wrote: > At 3:56 PM +0100 1999/9/13, Josef Karthauser wrote: > If I understand correctly (IIUC?), it basically creates a > tripwire-like database of files, names, etc..., and continues to > track whatever changes may be made in your configuration versus the > database it initially builds. You misunderstand slightly. What it does is install the default configuration (from /usr/src) in a safe place and then compares it with your installed configuration. For each file you get the options you describe: > When you run it again, you're given the option of taking the new > file, deleting the new file, merging the changes between them, or > leaving it for handling manually. ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Steve O'Hara-Smith Date: 13-Sep-99 Time: 16:13:53 This message was sent by XFMail ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message