Scot Hetzel wrote: > Several individuals expressed their concern with mergemaster deleting > scripts from /etc/rc.d. The main concern is that an administator > could create their own scripts and place them into /etc/rc.d, then > either they forget about their script, or another admin is updating > and they accidently delete the script during the mergemaster process. > > Attached is a patch to mergemaster that checks the script files for > "$FreeBSD: src" during the STALE_RC_FILES check. If a script has such > a header, it is assumed to be a stale rc file. The old behavior of > checking all scripts is still available when the -s flag is specified > to mergemaster. An alternate approach is in PR 64476: <http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=bin/64476> But probably the "$FreeBSD: src" test is more useful, I'm not sure. Anyway, you could post this as a follow-up, so that both approaches could be compared. -OliverReceived on Fri Aug 27 2004 - 14:08:40 UTC
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