I donot like using mergemaster ?

[Charlie Kester]

On Sun 25 Jul 2010 at 18:17:09 PDT zaxis wrote:
>
>I want to upgrade my freebsd 8.0  to 8.1.  I have read all the steps about
>upgrading freebsd. I feel mergemaster  is difficult to use e.g. which
>parameters should i use ?   (you may wish to use -U or -ai or -Fi)

I usually use -p when invoking mergemaster before installworld, and -F
after.  I.e.:

...
# mergemaster -p
# make installworld
# mergemaster -F
...

I don't know what the other mergemaster options do, but I've never felt
the need for them.