pkg 1.4 freeze please test test test!

Anton Afanasyev aasoft at gmail.com
Wed Oct 29 20:06:11 UTC 2014


On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 4:19 PM, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt at freebsd.org>
wrote:

> - new 3 way merge code ("stolen" from the fossil-scm) to allow automerging
>   configuration files
> - new @config keyword to mark a file as a config file (during
>   upgrade/reinstallation it will try to merge the configuration with the
> one the
>   user may have modified) an option AUTOMERGE is available to prevent
>   automerging if automerge fails a .pkgnew file will be created along with
> the
>   untouched user version of the configuration
>
Would it make sense to let the user specify the merge tool to use and
always use it, instead of having to support the merge code within pkg?


Anton


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