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

Don Lewis truckman at FreeBSD.org
Wed Mar 11 01:05:17 UTC 2015


On 10 Mar, Miroslav Lachman wrote:

> This and some other problems with freebsd-update (hanging on the reboot 
> after update) turns me back to using source compiled upgrades.
> I am compiling 10.1 right now to do the upgrades from 8.4 to 10.1 on 15 
> machines.

I only do source upgrades, but I've still run into the hang on reboot
problem with 10.1-STABLE.  The problem seems to have gone away when I
switched the root filesystem (there's actually only one filesystem on
that machine) from SU+J to SU.



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