From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Oct 8 15:15:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA02324 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 15:15:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA02275 for ; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 15:15:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA06415; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 19:21:45 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik) Message-ID: <19981008192144.36546@nothing-going-on.org> Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 19:21:44 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: Jeff Kletsky , francisco@natserv.com Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Recommendations on updating /etc for -stable References: <199810081110.HAA03731@federation.addy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Jeff Kletsky on Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 08:37:14AM -0700 Organization: Nik at home, where there's nothing going on Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 08:37:14AM -0700, Jeff Kletsky wrote: > >I am seeking suggestions on how to best update /etc/ while tracking stable. > >Any scripts someone has found useful? > > > >I read Nick Clayton "Making the world your own" and that answered most > >questions. On that document there is a mention of a script dircmp.pl and > >says it is included in FreeBSD versions 2.0 and above. I coult not find > >it in 2.2.7. That's not quite what it says; dircmp.pl is a small Perl script (Perl 4.036, which is installed by default on FreeBSD versions 2.0 and above) although I can see where the confusion comes in. > It is available from his web site > http://www.nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk/FreeBSD/make-world/dircmp.pl > > I am personally partial to something like > > diff -r --exclude=dev --side-by-side --suppress-common-lines > > since not only does it tell me what is there, not there, and changed, but > in the same pass lets me know *how* it has changed so I can make the edits. Allow me to plug Doug's (aka Studded) 'mergemaster' script, which you'll find in ports/sysutils/mergemaster, which does this and more (I believe). I've never actually used it, and near the top of my list of things to do is "download a copy, use it, and write about it for the tutorial". If anyone else has already used it and feels like submitting something (plain text, HTML, DocBook, I don't really care) to me, please feel free. N -- C.R.F. Consulting -- we're run to make me richer. . . To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message