Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 01:56:20 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Denis Peplin <den@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mergemaster improvement (auto-update for not modified files) Message-ID: <42846BB4.30302@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <428464F6.2020005@FreeBSD.org> References: <427743ED.6020200@FreeBSD.org> <200505062338.45418.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <427B8317.2030606@FreeBSD.org> <200505070037.10431.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <428464F6.2020005@FreeBSD.org>
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Denis Peplin wrote: > Hello! > > Daniel O'Connor wrote: > >>>>You don't need to download anything to start using etcmerge, you can just >>>>use the files from your last mergemaster. >>> >>>For etcmerge it is need to run mergemaster "one last time", or use >>>etc archive for some release. So if mergemaster will be improved, >>>it will be better for etcmerge :) >> >> >>Well, you can use etcmerge if you haven't changed anything in /etc - ie on a >>fresh install. > > I made another patch to mergemaster > http://people.freebsd.org/~den/scripts/mergemaster/mergemaster-check-store.diff > It poorly tested and have known problems, so it is not recommended for > now, but shows how simular functionality can be included into > mergemaster (with this patch mergemaster can collect some checksums > itself). Unfortunately, this will help only on further updates. that would be enough I run it every few weeks and anything that sped it up would be appreciated. >
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