Upgrading from 6.3 to 7.1 -- how dangerous?

[Mel Flynn]

On Sunday 19 April 2009 19:42:39 Doug Hardie wrote:
> While most of the update process is
> waiting for things to complete, mergemaster requires a lot of
> responses to a ton of questions about updates to configuration files.
> The vast majority of those will be to install the new version.
> However, there are some where you really need to review the changes
> and make sure your unique configuration gets carried over into the new
> files.  Its really easy to get into the "i" mode and skip right
> through some of those.  The recovery from that will be painful.

-iU is your friend. Only painful if you have custom rc.d files that depend on 
functionality in other rc.d files.

-i => install files that do not exist yet
-U => upgrade files that you have not modified

It's a blessing and reduces much of mergemaster's operator attention.
-- 
Mel