Mergemaster with Freebsd-Update

Brian W. brian at brianwhalen.net
Mon Jan 19 19:56:37 UTC 2015


Re the svn update running
svn up /usr/src
gets me only
changes not the whole tree.
On Jan 19, 2015 11:27 AM, "Chris Maness" <chris at chrismaness.com> wrote:

> I much prefer mergemaster to the freebsd-update (diff) method of merging
> configuration files.  However, the freebsd community seems to be moving in
> the binary upgrade direction.  I still build from source so that I can use
> mergemaster.  Where can I make a feature request to have mergemaster as an
> option in a freebsd-update (binary) upgrade?
>
> Also, is the a tool like portsnap for my source tree?  I used svn the last
> time and downloaded the whole version 10.0 tree.  I think I should be able
> to apply deltas only for the minor upgrade to 10.1, but google has not been
> my friend here.  I know that svn has that capability like cvsup did, but I
> have not been able to figure it out.
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
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