An mtree description of all non-zero files that make
distribution installs (only size and md5) is built from the
temproot. When the user completes a mergemaster run, the
mtree description file gets installed into /var/db for
safe-keeping.
When the user then decides to do a subsequent upgrade (with
the -U flag), the existing mtree description from /var/db
is called into service looking for files that are different in
DESTDIR. This is stashed away until a file that would normally
end up prompting the user to look at changes is encountered.
Since there are no user modified changes, the new file is
installed without bothering the user.
Looked at by: dougb
MFC after: 6 weeks
architecture to pass through to the underlying makefiles. This is
quite useful when building on an i386 box to populate an amd64 NFS
root.
Head nod: dougb
MFC after: 1 week
section on "make world". The old link still works fine, but all the
hyperlinks of the referenced document are broken; the same links
work find if /doc/en_US.ISO8859-1 is used instead of plain /doc to
reach the online Handbook copy.
they want to delete '*'. It turns out that there is one valid case where
this might happen, installing to an empty DESTDIR.
Patch submitted by: schweikh
* Add a paragraph suggesting that the merge option be used only for
files that users have modified. People have been using this option
for all files that are different, causing unecessary confusion.
The idea for this option came from Marc Schneiders <marc@schneiders.org>
* I've been meaning to remove the code that checked for the existence of
/etc/sysconfig for a while now, since that file was last seen in 2.2.2.
* Replace the above with a check for elements of the old rc system.
Offer to move these files out of DESTDIR/etc for the user's convenience.
* Give back one line of ws when showing a diff.
This was requested by several.
* Un-quote DIFF_FLAG, and add DIFF_OPTIONS. This will allow the user to
do more creative things in a mergemaster rc file. Un-quoting is necessary
in order to handle things like CVS Id tags that look like shell variables.
* Simplify terminal width determination.
Suggestions related to ignoring the CVS Id's were taken from several, with
dillon and gad providing particularly helpful feedback.
hatching the idea of using dc, and Giorgos (keramida) for incubating it.
This also reverses most of the previous commit which took out or
modified the text about umask stuff.
are installing.
* Since this means that for now we can't accomodate non-standard
umask's, warn the user accordingly.
* Convert the "press enter to continue" prompt into a function.
master.passwd, group, and make.conf
* Add a feature to check variables in rc.conf[.local] to their
counterparts in /etc/defaults/rc.conf after a run
* Twiddle whitespace a little
* Change some "[ -f file ] && rm file" to "rm -f file"
* Fix a problem with files that have no CVS $Id's. Thanks to naddy for
spotting this one. It wasn't a _huge_ problem since almost all the files
we install (except motd) have one, but still, it's a bug.
* Add a divider between diff outputs, which is helpful both for logs,
and for giving a good visual clue for diffs that are smaller than
$LINES. Another helpful suggestion from Gary W. Swearingen, swear@blarg.net.
