Re: RFC: etcupdate tool in base?

From: Doug Barton <dougb_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 13:22:54 -0700
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On 06/10/10 10:46, John Baldwin wrote:
| I've had several folks ask me recently about importing etcupdate
| (http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/etcupdate) into the base system as an alternate
| tool for updating /etc during upgrades.  Do folks have any strong objections
| to doing so?  More details about how it works and an HTML version of the
| manpage can be found at the URL above.

Initially mergemaster was a port which gave lots of people the
opportunity to gain familiarity with it easily. At some point after it
had been a port for a while there was a "critical mass" of people
suggesting that it be moved into the base system since it was one of
those ports that almost everyone installed anyway.

That said, I have no objection to whatever the community decides should
be done with etcupdate. Given that they approach the problems of
updating differently I think that there will be people who are more
attracted to it instead of mergemaster, and that's fine too. :)


hth,

Doug

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