Re: pkg 1.4 freeze please test test test!

From: Anton Afanasyev <aasoft_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 13:05:49 -0700
On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 4:19 PM, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt_at_freebsd.org>
wrote:

> - new 3 way merge code ("stolen" from the fossil-scm) to allow automerging
>   configuration files
> - new _at_config keyword to mark a file as a config file (during
>   upgrade/reinstallation it will try to merge the configuration with the
> one the
>   user may have modified) an option AUTOMERGE is available to prevent
>   automerging if automerge fails a .pkgnew file will be created along with
> the
>   untouched user version of the configuration
>
Would it make sense to let the user specify the merge tool to use and
always use it, instead of having to support the merge code within pkg?


Anton
Received on Wed Oct 29 2014 - 19:06:11 UTC

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