On Friday 30 September 2005 18:12, Brian Candler wrote: > On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 02:45:48AM +0400, Yar Tikhiy wrote: > > The fruitiest features are as follows: > > Will it automatically install new versions of files where the old one was > not altered? That's my biggest bugbear with mergemaster - it asks you about > a zillion files in /etc/rc.d which you have to manually agree to overwrite > just because the RCS ID has changed. In those cases where you've not > altered them yourself, I think you should just get the latest version. > However to do this properly, you'd need checksums of the original files. *broken record* Try etcmerge, it's in ports. I think the main problem is that you can't use etcmerge *right now* because you have to do one last manual merge to get a baseline etc directory. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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