svn commit: r258066 - in head: tools/regression/usr.sbin/etcupdate usr.sbin/etcupdate
John Baldwin
jhb at freebsd.org
Tue Nov 12 19:54:58 UTC 2013
On Tuesday, November 12, 2013 2:44:19 pm John Baldwin wrote:
> Author: jhb
> Date: Tue Nov 12 19:44:18 2013
> New Revision: 258066
> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/258066
>
> Log:
> Add a pre-world mode of updating similar to the -p option that can be
> passed to mergemaster. In this mode, only changes to /etc/master.passwd
> and /etc/group are merged to /etc. In addition, it uses a temporary
> tree to stage these changes rather than overwriting the existing
> 'current' and 'previous' trees so that a full update can be run after
> a normal installworld has completed.
I believe that this gives etcupdate feature parity with mergemaster insofar
as they have different design goals.
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John Baldwin
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