Another thing that would be very useful is that during a
merge of two files that it's possible to specify both
the left hand side and the right hand side.  That would
fix cases like:

Orig:

# $FreeBSD: src/etc/shells,v 1.4 SOMEDATE$
#
# List of acceptable shells for chpass(1).
# Ftpd will not allow users to connect who are not using
# one of these shells.

/bin/sh
/bin/csh
/usr/local/bin/zsh


The new 1.5 version has: /bin/tcsh in it.  Mergemaster won't let
me have both my /usr/local/bin/zsh and the /bin/tcsh.  During merge
I can have either but not both :(

Joe

    
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On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 09:34:03PM +0100, Brian Somers wrote:
> > Brian Somers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 
> > > >         First, the things I am definitely going to do. Christian "naddy"
> > > > Weisgerber has taken on the task of porting mm to openbsd.
> > > 
> > > I think it would be nice to aim to keep the two scripts exactly the 
> > > same, using `uname` when it's really necessary.
> > 
> > If I have interpreted the noises Theo has made correctly, he wants
> > mergemaster in the base tree.  I don't think he'll keep a "case
> > `uname` ..." in there.
> 
> Of course if we didn't need it... that'd be far better :-)
> 
> > Most of the diff deals with two simple differences:
> > - mergemaster uses "read -p <prompt>" throughout.  That fails for
> >   OpenBSD's /bin/sh (pdksh), where "read -p" means something entirely
> >   different.
> 
> That's not too bad as the read -p can be changed to echo/read.
> 
> > - On OpenBSD, "install" is synonymous to "install -c".  FreeBSD still
> >   has the old behavior where plain "install" deletes the source file.
> 
> Maybe the best bet here is to have ``INSTALL=install'' at the top of 
> the script (``INSTALL="install -c" for FreeBSD).  It's a difference, 
> but managable.
> 
> > If we can get rid of those, the actual differences become more
> > visible.
> > 
> > Oh, and changing every instance of "FreeBSD" into "${OPSYS}" or
> > some such would remove another few diff lines.
> 
> Aye.  Looks like we're thinking along the same lines.
> 
> I'll have to talk to Wes at BSDCon about trying to get the NetBSD 
> guys to introduce it there too - maybe some of the NetBSD developers 
> will be there too.
> 
> > -- 
> > Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> -- 
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> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !
> 
> 
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