On Thu, 10 Aug 2017 at 11:35 pm, Matthew Seaman <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 10/08/2017 16:21, Glen Barber wrote: > >> * Since we have no mechanism of properly merging changes to /etc > >> we simply copy files as needed with pc-updatemanager, and it is > >> difficult to maintain what should be updated, merged, or removed. > >> > > This is another long-standing item in the list of things to fix, indeed. > > The idea floated at BSDCam was to have a package that would install a > pristine copy of the /etc files under /var/db/etcupdate and prompt the > user to then use that tool to update or install their configs. That > should provide a nice compromise between having the files available from > pkgs and not enforcing a specific mechanism (tools, not policy) to > update /etc. > I haven't attended either of the conferences, and I'm sure this would have been discussed, but for those of us who weren't there: Pkgng has 3-way merge capability (copied from fossil-scm in pkg 1.4.0). Why are we considering using it? Not having ever seen this functionality used, I would have thought the only things to do would be agree on where the pristine old copy would be stored (.sample files in /etc?) and perhaps improve pkgng if the user experience isn't satisfactory. Regards, Ben -- -- From: Benjamin Woods [email protected] _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-pkgbase To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
