On Thursday 10 June 2010 4:22:54 pm Doug Barton wrote: > 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. :)
My inclination is to simply add a port, but I had a rash of folks contact me today, so I was testing the waters to see what level of critical mass was present. -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
