freebsd-udapte upgrade.

Peter Ankerstål peter at pean.org
Wed Nov 5 18:58:35 UTC 2014



> On 5 nov 2014, at 19:53, Scot Hetzel <swhetzel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 8:30 AM, Peter Ankerstål <peter at pean.org> wrote:
>> Could someone please explain how to use freebsd-update upgrade without
>> destroying all of your configuration files?
>> 
>> I really don't understand how to use the merge function.. In this case i
>> typed :q for all files it asked about. :wq seem to
>> do about the same thing. Notice that a few of the files has this shit in
>> multiple places. I can't be right that I should edit every file manually and
>> look for "current version" and so on?
> Most likely what happened is that when you used :wq it wrote the
> contents of the diff between your current version and the new version
> to your existing configuration files.  If you had stuck to using :q,
> it should have left your existing configuration files alone.

This was done with :q only. I dont get it. 
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