Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 14:54:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: "Crist J. Clark" <crist.clark@attbi.com> Cc: Trish Lynch <trish@bsdunix.net>, Adrian Wontroba <aw1@stade.co.uk>, chris scott <c.scott@uk.tiscali.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ifconfig config of gif tunnels Message-ID: <200210132154.g9DLsUmc057065@apollo.backplane.com> References: <20021013172810.A19177@titus.hanley.stade.co.uk> <20021013130138.G523-100000@femme.sapphite.org> <20021013214642.GB90169@blossom.cjclark.org>
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:Ewww. That kind of defeats the whole purpose of mergemaster(8). The
:whole idea is for a human to sit at the console and decide what
:changes need to be made. With your system, you'll lose any changes to
:master.passwd or group (like the recent addition of the sshd
:user/group). (Although I'll admit that changing the hosts file is one
:that I wouldn't mind skipping everytime.) You might as well just copy
:your files out of the way, run the make commands mergemaster(8) does,
:and then move the files back. Mergemaster(8) doesn't really buy you
:anything the way you are using it.
:
:Actually, you probably really should be using the '-a' option to
:mergemaster(8), and then go back later to see what else you need to
:update.
:--
:Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu
I would like mergemaster a whole lot more if:
(1) It just overwrote system files that users are not supposed to
change anyway, like files in /etc/defaults and the /etc/rc*
files.
(2) It cleared the window before each presentation, so I don't
have to search around the window to find the filename and/or
diff that it's currently asking me to do something about
(this is especially annoying for small files).
(3) It didn't try to display the whole diff initially, causing
a pipe-to-(less or more) that I then have to quit out of
before I can tell it to install / delete. Blech.
Sorry, just venting. Mergemaster is just one of those programs
which does important things but goes about it in an unbelievably
annoying and unobvious fashion.
-Matt
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