painful binary upgrade from 8.1 to 8.2

[Mark Felder]

On Sun, 06 Nov 2011 13:25:30 -0600, Randal L. Schwartz  
<merlyn at stonehenge.com> wrote:
>
> Why doesn't the freebsd-update command invoke mergemaster with -F?
>
> Or is there some step that I'm leaving out?
>

Does freebsd-update follow /etc/mergemaster.rc?


# Automatically install files that do not exist
AUTO_INSTALL='yes'
# Automatically upgrade files that have not been edited
AUTO_UPGRADE='yes'
# Ignore files that I don't want changed
IGNORE_FILES='/etc/motd'
# Do not display changes that only affect whitespace
#DIFF_FLAG="'.Bub'"
# Ignore CVS id lines to stop replacing files where only that line has  
changed
DIFF_OPTIONS='-I$FreeBSD:.*[$]'


This is precisely why I still do source upgrades most of the time. But I  
haven't tried since I started using mergemaster.rc.



Regards,


Mark