Packaging the FreeBSD base system with pkg(8)

[Gary Jennejohn]

On Tue, 5 Apr 2016 10:22:04 +0100
David Chisnall <theraven at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> On 5 Apr 2016, at 10:07, Gergely Czuczy <gergely.czuczy at harmless.hu> wrote:
> > 
> > Also, quite often entries from the base system are changed
> > manually, think of root's/toor's password.  Are such cases
> > going to be dealt with properly between upgrades, including
> > self-built-and-packaged base systems?  Currently it can be a
> > PITA with mergemaster to handle things like master.passwd
> > properly between upgrades, automation so far wasn't famous on
> > doing it properly. 
> 
> Mergemaster uses a 2-way merge.  It has the version that you
> have installed and the version that's being proposed for
> installation.  Etcupdate and pkg perform a 3-way merge.  It has
> the pristine version, the version that you have made changes
> to, and the new version.  If you have changed an entry and so
> has the package, then you will get a conflict that you have to
> resolve manually.  If you have added lines and so has the
> upstream version, then that should cleanly apply.  Similarly,
> if you and upstream have both modified different lines, then
> there should be no problem.
> 

Will there be an option not to merge?  I never update /etc when
I do installworld because what I have works for me and I see no
need to make any changes to a working system.

-- 
Gary Jennejohn