Security Updates and Patching Two Choices?

[Chuck Swiger]

Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On 2004-03-29 15:07, Charles Swiger <cswiger at mac.com> wrote:
>> On Mar 29, 2004, at 2:28 PM, Sean Murphy wrote:
[ ... ]
>>> If a tag just the 4_9 Release in the CVSupfile can i just ignore the
>>> mergemaster? also can I just CVSup the sources and build the ones I
>>> want? (see above)
>>
>> Generally one can ignore doing the mergemaster simply for a security
>> patch.
> 
> Unless, of course, the security patch fixes problems in /etc files that
> mergemaster *must* update.  It's not very difficult to run mergemaster.
> I wouldn't recomment avoiding it altogether.   [ ... ]

Oh, I agree with you: I think mergemaster is a useful tool, and I don't think 
it's very difficult to use.

Reasonable people disagree, however.  In particular, people who aren't 
familiar with diff generally find mergemaster to be incomprehensible.  :-)

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-Chuck