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

Chris H bsd-lists at bsdforge.com
Tue Mar 10 19:18:43 UTC 2015


On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 14:08:21 -0500 Adam Vande More <amvandemore at gmail.com>
wrote

> 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.
Ahem... right you are! Speaking of reading things, it'd
kill me to read more closely, before replying. :P
Sorry, Adam.

--Chris
> 
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> Adam
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