RFT: bin/106642: [patch] Allow excluding certain files from mergemaster (8)

[Gaspar Chilingarov]

Doug Barton wrote:
> Pieter de Goeje wrote:
>> On Tuesday 10 July 2007, Gaspar Chilingarov wrote:
>>> Is it possible to have also some configuration for mergemaster to tell
>>> it that some files should be installed automatically without asking --
>>> thus I know that I NEVER change /etc/rc.d/ or /etc/mtree or something
>>> like this -- so I wish to avoid mergemaster's questions about installing
>>> that files.
>> Do you know of mergemaster's -U option? This does (almost) exactly what you 
>> want.
> 
> Yeah, that too. :) (Thanks Gordon)
> 
> Doug
> 

Sure, it's *almost* what I want, but not exactly :).

Well another question -- is it possible teach somehow mergemaster, that 
it should never touch passwd, groups, /etc/ttys or bunch of another files?

About pre-script which you suggested, there is another problem -- I MAY 
have new scripts in /etc/rc.d, but NEVER change the system's scripts.

In other hand running rm /etc/rc.d/* before mergermaster's start can 
render system unusable, if mergemaster will fail for some reason.


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