easy way to upgrade from 6.3 to 7.1 (including port packages)
Oliver Fromme
olli at lurza.secnetix.de
Mon Oct 27 08:58:55 PDT 2008
martinko <gamato at users.sf.net> wrote:
> Oliver Fromme wrote:
> > martinko <gamato at users.sf.net> wrote:
> > > 1) I wonder if I could use mergemaster to compare 2 directories and
> > > merge differencies as neccessary. To explain: I have all config files I
> > > touch saved with full path somewhere in /root. And therefore I'd like
> > > mergemaster or some other tool to compare all files in my backup
> > > directory with newly installed (config) files.
> >
> > You can use mergemaster against any directory, not just
> > /etc. This is especially useful when perforing a binary
> > update, a cross update or similar things.
> >
>
> No, you cannot.
Yes, You can. I've done it several times. And I'm sure
I'm not hallucinating. :-)
> I have all config files I edited saved with full path under my backup
> directory and I would like to use mergemaster or something similar to
> compare and merge my changes (perhaps from other machine). But if you
> try to use mergemaster (you need to specify both -m and -D)
You only need -m if you have installed the source somewhere
else than /usr/src.
> it would try
> to run make (1) which fails since there is no Makefile in my backup dir. :-(
You have to it runs make(1) in /usr/src/etc (unless you
override the path with -m) which contains a Makefile.
If it doesn't, you haven't installed the system sources
correctly.
>From your description it sounds as if you used -m to
point to your modified etc files. That's wrong. Please
follow the instructions that I explained in my previous
mail message. It works. As I said, I've done it plenty
of times.
Best regards
Oliver
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