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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!lucy.swin.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Why upgrades are not simpler? Date: 8 Jan 1997 02:11:51 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 17 Message-ID: <5auvp7$aus@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <5akno1$ras$1@news-s01.ca.us.ibm.net> <5amvjp$q75@uriah.heep.sax.de> <5as228$37j@uuneo.neosoft.com> <5atgac$9ar@gosset.maths.tcd.ie> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33796 dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie (David Malone) wrote: > A "make diff" for the etc files would be very useful ( a la innd ), > I'm not sure how difficult to set one up would be. I'm planning a > 2.1.6->2.2 upgrade when 2.2 is ready, so I might have a look then. Indeed, i've already thought about things like ``diff3'' (using the original file of the old version, the original file of the new version, and the customized file), but i have never got around to complete this task. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)