mergemaster improvement (auto-update for not modified files)

Julian Elischer julian at elischer.org
Fri May 13 01:56:24 PDT 2005


Denis Peplin wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> 
>>>>You don't need to download anything to start using etcmerge, you can just
>>>>use the files from your last mergemaster.
>>>
>>>For etcmerge it is need to run mergemaster "one last time", or use
>>>etc archive for some release.  So if mergemaster will be improved,
>>>it will be better for etcmerge :)
>>
>>
>>Well, you can use etcmerge if you haven't changed anything in /etc - ie on a 
>>fresh install.
> 
> I made another patch to mergemaster
> http://people.freebsd.org/~den/scripts/mergemaster/mergemaster-check-store.diff
> It poorly tested and have known problems, so it is not recommended for
> now, but shows how simular functionality can be included into
> mergemaster (with this patch mergemaster can collect some checksums
> itself). Unfortunately, this will help only on further updates.

that would be enough
I run it every few weeks and anything that sped it up would be appreciated.

> 



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