From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 26 17:20:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6766737B401 for ; Sat, 26 Oct 2002 17:20:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vectors.cx (manifold.vectors.cx [64.163.147.229]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E068243E4A for ; Sat, 26 Oct 2002 17:20:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from monkey@vectors.cx) Received: from vectors.cx (2120b834444f1d10413b0d38ce398aeb@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vectors.cx (8.12.6/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g9R0Maho089108; Sat, 26 Oct 2002 17:22:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from monkey@vectors.cx) Received: (from monkey@localhost) by vectors.cx (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id g9R0MarZ089107; Sat, 26 Oct 2002 17:22:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from monkey) Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2002 17:22:36 -0700 From: Adam Weinberger To: David Banning Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mergemaster question Message-ID: <20021027002236.GP80277@vectors.cx> Mail-Followup-To: Adam Weinberger , David Banning , questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20021026195056.A11787@skytrackercanada.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-action=pgp-signed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021026195056.A11787@skytrackercanada.com> X-Editor: Vim 6.1 http://www.vim.org X-Mailer: Mutt 1.5 http://www.mutt.org X-PGP-Key: http://www.vectors.cx/pgp.key.txt X-URL: http://www.vectors.cx http://www.crackula.com User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 >> (10.26.2002 @ 1650 PST): David Banning said, in 0.5K: << > 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? >> end of "mergemaster question" from David Banning << Nope, you're not missing anything ::) Overwriting system binaries and libraries is the easy part. You don't want an installer overwriting your files in /etc... that's where all the things that make your system what it is live. A good number of files changed from 4.5 to 4.7, but mergemaster shouldn't take a long time... as compared to, say, building world, or even installing world. Unless you've modified lots of stuff, it's perfectly fine to let mergemaster overwrite nearly everything. But it's worth paying attention to: one of the things you'll be needing to merge is /etc/master.passwd. If you let mergemaster overwrite it, you'll lose your users. Also keep in mind that the more time between upgrades, the more files have to be overwritten. Very few /etc files changed from 4.6.2 to 4.7. - -Adam - -- Adam Weinberger adam@vectors.cx adamw@FreeBSD.ORG -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9uzHMo8KM2ULHQ/0RAl3nAKCtoa2XY4h2eJMjZ9YqQOzvZJny1wCgweKb c0EmxMruNeLz0a/FebrkdBs= =4J3t -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message