Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 14:47:10 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: src-committers@freebsd.org Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r258066 - in head: tools/regression/usr.sbin/etcupdate usr.sbin/etcupdate Message-ID: <201311121447.10896.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <201311121944.rACJiJnS079510@svn.freebsd.org> References: <201311121944.rACJiJnS079510@svn.freebsd.org>
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On Tuesday, November 12, 2013 2:44:19 pm John Baldwin wrote: > Author: jhb > Date: Tue Nov 12 19:44:18 2013 > New Revision: 258066 > URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/258066 > > Log: > Add a pre-world mode of updating similar to the -p option that can be > passed to mergemaster. In this mode, only changes to /etc/master.passwd > and /etc/group are merged to /etc. In addition, it uses a temporary > tree to stage these changes rather than overwriting the existing > 'current' and 'previous' trees so that a full update can be run after > a normal installworld has completed. I believe that this gives etcupdate feature parity with mergemaster insofar as they have different design goals. -- John Baldwin
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