Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:06:43 -0700 From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> Cc: Pieter de Goeje <pieter@degoeje.nl>, Gaspar Chilingarov <casper@web.am>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFT: bin/106642: [patch] Allow excluding certain files from mergemaster (8) Message-ID: <46957093.2030701@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <46955C9E.6090101@u.washington.edu> References: <20070419133550.GA65054@tirith.brixandersen.dk> <20070419200929.GA70735@tirith.brixandersen.dk> <4693BC3E.1050605@web.am> <200707110115.42139.pieter@degoeje.nl> <469417CB.7010705@FreeBSD.org> <4694AAF1.6050302@web.am> <46951CC2.5050602@FreeBSD.org> <46955C9E.6090101@u.washington.edu>
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Garrett Cooper wrote:
> Doug Barton wrote:
>> Gaspar Chilingarov wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Well another question -- is it possible teach somehow mergemaster, that
>>> it should never touch passwd, groups, /etc/ttys or bunch of another
>>> files?
>>>
>>
>> Sure, you just do the opposite of what I did in the last script. If
>> the file doesn't exist in the temproot when it's time to start
>> comparing, mergemaster will never do anything with it. So here is some
>> more out of the script that I actually use:
>>
>> #!/bin/sh
>> # NOTE: No PATH needed, because mm's PATH is already draconian enough
>> case "${PRE_WORLD}" in
>> '') rm -f /etc/defaults/pccard.conf
>> rm -f ${TEMPROOT}/etc/motd
>> rm -f ${TEMPROOT}/etc/printcap
>> rm -f ${TEMPROOT}/etc/namedb/named.*
>> ;;
>> esac
>>
>>
> What if a user or group was added to /etc/group or /etc/passwd that was
> required for the updated version of the OS? I would see this behavior a
> bit counterproductive in this case.
That's what the -p (PRE_WORLD) option is for.
Doug
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