question on mergemaster

[Peter Ulrich Kruppa]

On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Richard Todd wrote:

> Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:
> >What about a file "mergemaster_ignore" where I put in the six or
> >seven names of files that should never be touched?
>
> You can do this already with a little fiddling with the .mergemasterrc file.
> I have a /root/.mergemasterrc file that looks like this:
> ------------------------
> MM_PRE_COMPARE_SCRIPT=/usr/local/bin/mergemaster_precompare
> ------------------------
>
> MM_PRE_COMPARE_SCRIPT specifies a script that gets run after
> the temproot dir gets populated but before mergemaster starts
> comparing it against the current /etc contents. My
> /usr/local/bin/mergemaster_precompare looks like this:
> ------------------------
> #!/bin/sh cd /var/tmp/temproot
> rm etc/master.passwd etc/group etc/ppp/ppp.conf
> etc/mail/aliases etc/amd.map etc/hosts
> ------------------------
> which removes
> those files from the set of "new" files mergemaster considers
> possibly installing.
Ah, yes I see.
Which options do you append to
# mergemaster
then?
I cannot find anything like "install everything without asking" in
the manpage.

Regards,

Uli.


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