8.2/7.4-RELEASEs Announced...

[jhelfman at e-e.com]

> On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 02:42:25PM +0100, Marco van Tol wrote:
>>
>> Read up on the mergemaster manual for options "-F" and "-i" :-)
> 
>   freebsd-update does not use mergemaster, though probably it should.

My understanding is that freebsd-update was introduced prior to releases 
being branched, so this issue surfaced at that time. The patch I believe 
would be a fix to the freebsd-update client to better handle the tag. I
can't see mergemaster as being an easier solution, as the actual binary
would need to be verified against a known good index that would exist on the
update server.

But then, again, I may be wrong.


> We had this discussion a month or two ago.

Do you have a link to this thread?

> 
>   Currently there is no way around verifying the changes for each file
> with a changed $ID$ field, frustrating as it is.
> 
>   (Also, if you realize you've made a mistake and say "N" at the end
> when it asks if all the merges are OK, it kicks you out of the update
> process instead of going through the merges again.)
>   -- Clifton
> 
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