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

[Dmitry Morozovsky]

On Wed, 11 Jul 2007, Doug Barton wrote:

DB> > About pre-script which you suggested, there is another problem -- I MAY
DB> > have new scripts in /etc/rc.d, but NEVER change the system's scripts.
DB> 
DB> Simple answer, don't do that. Put your scripts in /usr/local/etc/rc.d
DB> instead, and as of 6.1 and newer they will be included in the base
DB> rcorder. Therefore there will be no difference in when they are run.
DB> There is a default assumption that stuff in /etc/rc.d is the systems,
DB> and the systems only. Now that local scripts (including ports) are in
DB> the base rcorder, there is no reason not to do it that way.

The first exclusion in mind would be scripts that should be running before 
mounting file systems other than root...


Sincerely,
D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
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