Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 19:20:21 -0700 From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading rc files + CTM outage? Message-ID: <199609240220.TAA15613@austin.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 23 Sep 1996 18:47:10 PDT." <2384.843529630@time.cdrom.com>
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> > "cvs update" works pretty well for this sort of thing. First, > > ... > > Huh! I wonder if putting the CVS repository on a CD would let > me use something like this technique for upgrading /etc. ;-) Ignoring your winky-face ... Actually, I think that's a good idea. You wouldn't need the whole repository, of course -- just a mini-repository containing the /etc files. If you didn't want to or couldn't use a CVS repository, you could include just the necessary RCS files. It would be easy to put together a shell script to do the merging, using "diff3 -m". John
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