8.2/7.4-RELEASEs Announced...

Marek 'Buki' Kozlovský dev at null.cz
Fri Feb 25 13:47:51 UTC 2011


[snip]
> > I had this problem before and then in my frustration just commented out
> > this line in freebsd-update.conf:
> > 
> >   #MergeChanges /etc/ /var/named/etc/ /boot/device.hints
> > 
> > I got lucky that time, but is this really safe? What if, say, a new
> > daemon has been installed in the upgrade and needs a new user.
> > 
> > Any suggestions?
> 
> Read up on the mergemaster manual for options "-F" and "-i" :-)

perhaps you mean "-Ui" ?
problem is, he might have no src tree when using freebsd-update, so
mergemaster is a no-go :(

> Marco
> 

Buki
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