svn commit: r258066 - in head: tools/regression/usr.sbin/etcupdate usr.sbin/etcupdate

[John Baldwin]

On Tuesday, November 12, 2013 2:44:19 pm John Baldwin wrote:
> Author: jhb
> Date: Tue Nov 12 19:44:18 2013
> New Revision: 258066
> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/258066
> 
> Log:
>   Add a pre-world mode of updating similar to the -p option that can be
>   passed to mergemaster.  In this mode, only changes to /etc/master.passwd
>   and /etc/group are merged to /etc.  In addition, it uses a temporary
>   tree to stage these changes rather than overwriting the existing
>   'current' and 'previous' trees so that a full update can be run after
>   a normal installworld has completed.

I believe that this gives etcupdate feature parity with mergemaster insofar
as they have different design goals.

-- 
John Baldwin