Mergemaster enhancement

[Julian Elischer]

Gordon Tetlow wrote:

> I've thrown together a quick mergemaster enhancement that will 
> automagically upgrade files that have changed in the /usr/src/etc 
> distribution but the user hasn't changed. Great applications are for 
> when you trust that we aren't going to break everything and only don't 
> want mergemaster to squash files that you have customized.
>
> Patch location: 
> http://people.freebsd.org/~gordon/patches/mergemaster.mtree.diff
>
> How it works:
> Through clever use of mtree, I build an mtree description of 
> everything that make distribution installs (only size and md5) from 
> the temproot. When the user completes a mergemaster run, the mtree 
> description file gets installed into /var/db for safe-keeping.
>
> When the user then decides to do a subsequent upgrade (with the -U 
> flag), the existing mtree description from /var/db is called into 
> service looking for files that are different in DESTDIR. This is 
> stashed away until a file that would normally end up prompting you to 
> look at changes is encountered. Since there are no user modified 
> changes, the new file is installed without bothering the user.
>
> Let me know what you think.


I really like  it
especially as it is  optional

>
> Thanks,
> -gordon
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