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

[Peter Olsson]

On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 12:55:09PM -0500, Adam Vande More wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 12:45 PM, Peter Olsson <
> list-freebsd-stable at jyborn.se> wrote:
> 
> > 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?
> >
> 
> It is added, no flag needed.  You are running a version of freebsd-update
> which didn't have the feature(8.4).
> 
> -- 
> Adam

Ok, I see, thanks!

Peter Olsson