Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2002 19:08:20 -0500 From: "DaleCo Help Desk" <daleco@daleco.biz> To: "David Banning" <david@skytrackercanada.com>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: mergemaster question Message-ID: <035e01c27d4c$f62d36e0$fa00a8c0@DaleCoportable> References: <20021026195056.A11787@skytrackercanada.com>
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From: "David Banning" <david@skytrackercanada.com> To: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Saturday, October 26, 2002 6:50 PM Subject: mergemaster question > I am just in the process of upgrading from 4.5S to 4.7 and I will > be running mergemaster. > > One thing I notice using mergemaster is that it seems to take such a long > time. Is there a quicker way? It wants to replace alot of files, > and that's OK for me 95% of the time. > Only a few I want to keep or merge. > > Am I missing something, or is it just a part of upgrading that you must > decide, file by file which will be modified or replaced? > I'm guessing that a) the versatility of FBSD in general and b) the sheer amount of effort involved in keeping up with the entire OS have something to do with this. Seems like it'd be really quite difficult to determine which files _everyone_ would think don't need to be kept or merged. And certainly, you can't depend on everyone to read all the changes themselves. Kevin Kinsey To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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