question on mergemaster

[rmtodd at servalan.servalan.com (Richard Todd)]

Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:
>What about a file "mergemaster_ignore" where I put in the six or
>seven names of files that should never be touched?

You can do this already with a little fiddling with the .mergemasterrc file.
I have a /root/.mergemasterrc file that looks like this:
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MM_PRE_COMPARE_SCRIPT=/usr/local/bin/mergemaster_precompare
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MM_PRE_COMPARE_SCRIPT specifies a script that gets run after the temproot
dir gets populated but before mergemaster starts comparing it against the
current /etc contents. My /usr/local/bin/mergemaster_precompare looks like 
this:
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#!/bin/sh
cd /var/tmp/temproot
rm etc/master.passwd etc/group etc/ppp/ppp.conf etc/mail/aliases etc/amd.map etc/hosts
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which removes those files from the set of "new" files mergemaster considers
possibly installing.