There has to be a better way of merging /etc during a major freebsd-update

[Peter Olsson]

On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 10:17:18AM -0500, Adam Vande More wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 7:05 AM, Peter Olsson <list-freebsd-stable at jyborn.se
> > wrote:
> 
> > This flag to mergemaster saved a lot of work when I did
> > upgrades the old way, with cvsup and the make steps and
> > then mergemaster:
> >
> 
> https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=221780
> 
> I'd venture to guess the script will work fine on older installs, but
> testing should be done first.
> 
> -- 
> Adam

This seems like an excellent addition fo freebsd-update,
how come it isn't added?
Possibly as a flag, so the default operation isn't changed.

Peter Olsson