:Okay,
:
:> That's true, I forgot we were going to do that. We shouldn't spend
:> too much time on the libc version I guess. A daemon will be able to do
:> much more sophisticated things with the data.
:
:I think I'll forget about rewriting the clib stuff. But who's working
:on this dubious daemon, anyway? I'm sick and tiered of always having
:to restore my services file after each make upgrade. This is because I
:forget to do so sometimes. :)
:
:--j
The demon won't be done for a long time, but we have the 'other'
idea for a solution in this thread:
'Re: make upgrade overwrites /etc/mail/mailer.conf'
Which is to make 'make upgrade' aware of target files that are
under CVS management. If someone would like to work on this I do not
think it would be all that difficult. It would involve creating an
install script (by using the INSTALL= override that the Makefile's
support) which checks to see whether the target is under CVS management
by checking to see if the target directory/CVS/Entries file (if it
exists) contains the target file name, and then does a 3-way merge
instead of overwriting the file.
The 'make upgrade' target would override INSTALL to point to this
special script and that should do it.
Would you like to take a shot at it ?
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon@backplane.com>