What we keep under /etc (was: cvs commit: src/etc rc rc.shutdown src/etc/rc.d ...)

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 20:01, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> The overwriting of some directories in /etc can be made optional and
> default to off (keeping the current behavior, but allowing faster updates
> of a part of /etc for those who want it), if that's what's worrying you.
>
> We could add an option to mergemaster like -f which would take a list of
> /etc subdirectories to blindly overwrite, i.e.:
>
>  # mergemaster -f "rc.d periodic defaults isdn"
>
> To avoid having to type manually the list of directories, this could also
> be made optional based on an environment variable like
> MM_OVERWRITE_SUBDIRS, in which case the order of precedence would be:

Or import etcmerge :)

etcmerge isn't perfect, but I think effort would be better expended making it 
more user friendly (I'm thinking specifically of guiding the user through 
things more explicitly)

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