On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 12:14:28AM +0300, Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote: > On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 08:23:02AM -0700, John Baldwin wrote: > > > On Thursday, August 13, 2015 04:13:43 PM Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 04, 2015 at 10:00:06PM -0700, John Baldwin wrote: > > > > > > > On Sunday, July 26, 2015 03:26:22 AM Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > > > I was botherd to not have the merge(1) utility available in base (for > > > > > etcupdate) > > > > > when building base WITHOUT_RCS. > > > > > > > > > > So I have rewritten a merge(1) utility which should be compatible. > > > > > > > > > > I used the 3-way merge code from the fossil VCS instead of making it > > > > > call diff3. > > > > > All I have done from the fossil code is adapting it to use sbuf(9). > > > > > > > > > > The bonus for end users is the merge from fossil can resolve > > > > > situation where the > > > > > diff3 in base cannot. (which explains a "failure" with the GNU RCS > > > > > test suite) > > > > > > > > > > meaning etcupdate will be more happy merge configuration files. > > > > > > > > Thanks! This will save me from having to hack etcupdate to use diff3 > > > > instead > > > > of merge. > > > > > > Hi, can I use etcupdate to update /etc w/o source tree? > > > I.e. I take from new distro /var/db/etcupdate and try to update /etc? > > > > etcupdate does a 3-way merge of an "old" stock /etc and a "new" stock /etc > > into /etc. The "old" stock /etc is always stored in /var/db/etcupdate. > > The "new" stock /etc has to come from somewhere. One option is to generate > > it from /usr/src (e.g. after a buildworld). However, you can also > > pregenerate > > tarballs from a /usr/src tree on one machine and then use those tarballs > > instead of generating an /etc tree from /usr/src on another machine. I've > > used this for upgrades of a cluster of machines where a single machine would > > build release "images" that were basically a buildworld + an 'etcupdate > > build' > > from the corresponding src tree. I then used 'etcupdate -t > > /path/to/tarball' > > to update /etc after installing the new world. > > > > The idea is that for something like freebsd-update one could ship the latest > > etcupdate build tarball on each update to do a full 3-way merge of /etc. > > What about /var/db/etcupdate from install media? > Can I use this? > What best way for work with /var/db/etcupdate from install media > (storing, saving and etc)?
As I see, /var/db/etcupdate/current match installed version. Is this enough? How I use this? _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
