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

Adam Vande More amvandemore at gmail.com
Tue Mar 10 19:08:23 UTC 2015


On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 2:01 PM, Chris H <bsd-lists at bsdforge.com> wrote:

> > >
> >
> > 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."
>

Op asked for a freebsd-update solution which excludes any mergemaster
solution short of at least a partial rewrite.

-- 
Adam


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