Is freebsd-update braindamaged, or I'm using it wrong?

[Vincent Hoffman]

On 01/10/2013 10:16, Ivan Voras wrote:
> This is the first time I've used freebsd-update in years, and I'm
> immediately flagging it as something I won't use in the future. For
> the last half hour it has been forcing me to manually resolve, one by
> one, in an editor, hundreds of "merge conflicts" such as these:
>
>   1 <<<<<<< current version
>   2 # $FreeBSD: release/9.0.0/etc/gettytab 209954 2010-07-12 19:09:18Z bcr $
>   3 =======
>   4 # $FreeBSD: release/9.2.0/etc/gettytab 243623 2012-11-27 19:23:54Z peterj $
>   5 >>>>>>> 9.2-RELEASE
>   6 #       from: @(#)gettytab      5.14 (Berkeley) 3/27/91
>   7 #
>
> This is fairly ridiculous. Then, at a random file it has proposed its
> own merge and asked the prompt "Does this look reasonable?". It was
> not, but when I answered it with "n" it stopped the whole process
> (instead of maybe opening the file in the editor for me to merge
> again).
>
> I've since retried the process and it behaves the same, and then tried
> it on another system and again - the same type of manual merges and
> the same exit from the process when answering "n" to a botched merge.
>
> In both cases, I'm upgrading from either 9.0-RELEASE or 9.1-RELEASE to
> 9.2-RELEASE and the command line was "freebsd-update upgrade -r
> 9.2-RELEASE".
>
> Am I doing something wrong, or is freebsd-update simply quirky and not
> that useful?
It is a little quirky, you arent the first to note this. For example
http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/Should-I-be-able-to-use-mergemaster-with-freebsd-update-td5822457.html

"not that useful?" is subjective, some machines I've used it on happily,
I'm more likely to build and use mergemaster though.

Vince
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