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

[Chris H]

On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 10:17:18 -0500 Adam Vande More <amvandemore at gmail.com>
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.
Isn't that pretty much what the -F flag, I mentioned does?
"-F    If the files differ only by VCS Id ($FreeBSD) install the
       new file."
In all honesty, I too got stuck answering "y" ~100 times, way
back when. And decided I needed to either find a better way,
or see if the mergemaster(8) had any secrets I wasn't
aware of. ;-)

--Chris
> 
> -- 
> Adam
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