Mergemaster

[Conrad J. Sabatier]

On Sun, 5 Feb 2012 17:40:14 -0700 (MST)
Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 5 Feb 2012, Net Warrior wrote:
> 
> > Hi there.
> >
> > I found very tedious when , after a makeworld the mergemaster
> > process to say (i) to install/upgrade/replace/  with the new file,
> > specially when there are a lot of files  I was reading the
> > documentation but it's not clear to me which option to use to
> > automate the process, which is the right one, or combination?
> >
> > -U -F -iF?
> 
> -Ui takes a long time the first time, then is much better the next
> time. _______________________________________________

One shortcut that works very well if you haven't made any
customizations there that you're afraid will be overwritten, is to 'rm
-rf /etc/rc.d' before running mergemaster, so it can just automatically
add all the new files without prompting.

HTH

-- 
Conrad J. Sabatier
conrads at cox.net