8.2/7.4-RELEASEs Announced...

Marco van Tol marco at tols.org
Fri Feb 25 14:07:22 UTC 2011


On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 02:47:44PM +0100, Marek 'Buki' Kozlovský wrote:
> [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 :(

My apologies.  I went ahead to fast and replied with source-upgrade in
mind.

Sorry,

-- 
Marco van Tol
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