Re: misc/40977: /var/backups/work/device.current is overly sensitive to ls(1) columnar alignment

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR misc/40977; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: misc/40977: /var/backups/work/device.current is overly
        sensitive to ls(1) columnar alignment
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 18:38:26 +0000

 On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 04:25:00AM +0000, Taylor R Campbell wrote:
  >     Any change in the columnar alignment in the listing of a
  >     single device in /var/backups/work/device.current as generated
  >     by /etc/security causes every other line to change.  This
  >     makes the RCS history accumulate excessively, about a thousand
  >     times faster than the useful information is accumulating, and
  >     renders the diffs useless for the naked eye.
 
 Does setting "diff_options=-uw" in security.conf produce suitable
 diffs?
 
 (And, does it mess up any other diffs? Does that mechanism need to be
 extended to allow per-object diff flags?)
 
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 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost