mergemaster goof when src upgrading 7.0 -> 7.1

[matt donovan]

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 10:55 PM, Peter Boosten <peter at boosten.org> wrote:

> matt donovan wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Peter Boosten <peter at boosten.org> wrote:
> >>>
> >> Well, my point is that mergemaster shouldn't have to delete ALL
> accounts,
> >> just to add one. User and group accounts can be added to the
> passwd/group
> >> file *without* deleting the others.
> >>
> >
> > mergemaster doesn't delete ALL accounts if you do it correctly. I usually
> > leave the files for later and then manually do it.
> >
>
> Your 'do it correctly' refers to 'leave it for later', however I've read
> at least twice yesterday, that someone *accidentally* 'installed' the
> file from /var/tmp/temproot. *That* should not be possible in the first
> place.
>
> Thank heaven it never happened to me (knock on wood), but a mistake is
> easily made, especially when you just went through a whole bunch of
> updated rc scripts.
>
> Peter
>
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myself I just watch the file name line since I don't touch files outside of
/usr. unless it's for example ppp.conf