On 2021-01-04 10:58, Enji Cooper wrote:
On Jan 4, 2021, at 10:54 AM, Enji Cooper <yaneurab...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Jan 4, 2021, at 10:49 AM, Marek Zarychta <zarych...@plan-b.pwste.edu.pl
<mailto:zarych...@plan-b.pwste.edu.pl>> wrote:
…
Terrible idea IMHO, but I am only the weak voice from the userbase.
It's like deprecating old, well-worn hammer in the favour of the nail
gun. Why not deprecate biff(1), pom(6), nvi(1) etc.?
Marek,
I’m curious: have you used etcupdate before instead of mergemaster? If so
when? If you ran into issues (UX as well as functional): could you please
report them on bugs.freebsd.org <http://bugs.freebsd.org/> ?
etcupdate is a less fragile tool that’s broken my systems less when
compared with mergemaster.
That reminds me, there is a feature gap (in the last 5~10 years I’ve used
etcupdate) that I forgot about between mergemaster and etcupdate: in
particular,
mergemaster works when adding/removing new users and groups from
/etc/passwd* and
/etc/group, respectively, dealing with mtree files, the last time I checked.
Apart
from that, I don’t see a use for mergemaster (and in which case, the feature
gap
can be trimmed down/migrated to etcupdate). mergemaster has broken the
configuration of my machines/VMs more than etcupdate has ever and I’ve used
both
tools for about the same time.
TBH I've continued to use mergemaster simply out of habit, because it was the
recommended/supported way of doing it from UPDATING.
It started acting odd awhile back. So I went to performing
mergemaster -viF
to simply burn through the $Id only changes. Then diff(1)ing the the 2 trees
to create a mega-patch which I could apply. I took that route with the
intention
of coming back to it to discover what the problem was. But never got around
to it.
I'm *really* glad this thread came about. Now I can move onto something that
actually works as intended -- assuming /etc/(group|passwd) bits get merged.
:-)
--Chris
Cheers,
-Enji
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