On Fri, 6 May 2005 23:18, Denis Peplin wrote: > But for not modified files etcmerge is too complicated. Updating > for not modified files should be done in fully automated mode.
hmm, but for unmodified files etcmerge does nothing - you don't have to do anything unless you want to edit the new files so it IS automated. Like I said before etcmerge's UI is not like mergemaster - it is much more batch oriented. > And for comparision, this file > http://people.freebsd.org/~den/scripts/mergemaster/sums-etc.list.gz > is only 264 kB in size. Unlike etcmerge archives (from link in etcmerge > manpage), it contain checksums, and checksums included for every > revision, even if it was not included in official release. You don't need to download anything to start using etcmerge, you can just use the files from your last mergemaster. > I think that checksums database can be even committed into > CVS and will not bloat it. Ideally, this way of updating should be > available even for those users who have no access to internet > (distribution recieved on CDROM, etc.) 264k is a pretty large file to commit to the repo.. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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