Re: mergemaster RFC (long)

2000-09-21 Thread Brian Somers
> > 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(

RE: mergemaster RFC (long)

2000-09-21 Thread Peter Avalos
+ --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Josef Karthauser > Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2000 12:45 PM > To: Brian Somers > Cc: Christian Weisgerber; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: mergema

Re: mergemaster RFC (long)

2000-09-21 Thread Josef Karthauser
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 al

Re: mergemaster RFC (long)

2000-09-20 Thread Brian Somers
> 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 rea

Re: mergemaster RFC (long)

2000-09-18 Thread Christian Weisgerber
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 necessar

Re: mergemaster RFC (long)

2000-09-17 Thread Doug Barton
"Aleksandr A.Babaylov" wrote: > > Doug Barton writes: > .. > > And the last of the ideas I want feedback on is related to the problem > > of determining permissions on the files to be installed. To my knowledge > > there is no existing C utility that will tell you the octal permissi

Re: mergemaster RFC (long)

2000-09-17 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Doug Barton writes: .. > And the last of the ideas I want feedback on is related to the problem > of determining permissions on the files to be installed. To my knowledge > there is no existing C utility that will tell you the octal permissions ports/sysutils/stat, for example 0cicu

Re: mergemaster RFC (long)

2000-09-17 Thread Brian Somers
[.] > First, the things I am definitely going to do. Christian "naddy" > Weisgerber has taken on the task of porting mm to openbsd. He has made > some very reasonable requests that will make his life easier and reduce > gratuitous differences between versions. Also, several people have a

mergemaster RFC (long)

2000-09-16 Thread Doug Barton
Greetings campers, Mergemaster first made its appearance as a port two years ago tomorrow, and became part of the FreeBSD source tree last October 20th. Lots of things have changed since the original version of the program (or script, whatever), and there are some proposals on the board f