On 04.01.2021 19:59, Steve Kargl wrote:
On Mon, Jan 04, 2021 at 10:30:28AM -0800, Enji Cooper wrote:
On Jan 4, 2021, at 10:19, Warner Losh <i...@bsdimp.com> wrote:
mergemaster has been on its way out since well before the switch to git.
It's been disfavored for at least a decade and basically unmaintained in
the base for maybe last 5 years. Apart from major breakage, only doc
changes have happened in that time.
Adding to this: it has no maintainer, it’s less featureful, and it lacks tests.
Once I switched to etcupdate a few years back I never looked back at
mergemaster.
I honestly think it should be deprecated in 13.x and removed in 14.x. It’s been
several major releases since it’s been unofficially deprecated.
-Enji
For something that has been disfavored for a decade, unmaintained
for at least 5 years, and now seemly unofficially deprecated, it
seems strange that /usr/src/UPDATING does not mention etcupdate
in the COMMON ITEMS section.
% svn info UPDATING | grep -i vision
Revision: 367909
% svn blame UPDATING
...
64477 imp To rebuild everything and install it on the current system.
64477 imp -----------------------------------------------------------
...
262619 jmg mergemaster -Fp [5]
262619 jmg mergemaster -Fi [4]
% svn log -r 262619
------------------------------------------------------------------------
r262619 | jmg | 2014-02-28 11:51:47 -0800 (Fri, 28 Feb 2014) | 3 lines
since -F is safe, and an update from 10-HEAD to 10-STABLE is sooo bloody
anoying w/o it.. recommend people use -F too...
------------------------------------------------------------------------
etcupdate first appeared in the tree on 2012-07-13 (r238423)
Moreover mergemaster is still officially documented and recommend as
only right method in FreeBSD handbook. See
https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/makeworld.html.
World is moving, we may have new tools but each deprecation should be,
in this order:
1) well announced
2) adjusted in the handbook
3) implemeted
Michal
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