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

[Dmitry Morozovsky]

On Mon, 11 Oct 2004, Daniel O'Connor wrote:

DO> On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 20:01, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
DO> > The overwriting of some directories in /etc can be made optional and
DO> > default to off (keeping the current behavior, but allowing faster updates
DO> > of a part of /etc for those who want it), if that's what's worrying you.
DO> >
DO> > We could add an option to mergemaster like -f which would take a list of
DO> > /etc subdirectories to blindly overwrite, i.e.:
DO> >
DO> >  # mergemaster -f "rc.d periodic defaults isdn"
DO> >
DO> > To avoid having to type manually the list of directories, this could also
DO> > be made optional based on an environment variable like
DO> > MM_OVERWRITE_SUBDIRS, in which case the order of precedence would be:
DO>
DO> Or import etcmerge :)
DO>
DO> etcmerge isn't perfect, but I think effort would be better expended making it
DO> more user friendly (I'm thinking specifically of guiding the user through
DO> things more explicitly)

Well, I did test etcmerge yesterday, and finished with partly broken right to
directories with conflict results, namely /etc/mail, /etc/namedb and /etc/uucp:
they went to mode 700 after etcmerge install. I have no chance to dig into
problem deeply though.

Sincerely,
D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
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