From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 20 13:15:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from revolution.3-cities.com (revolution.3-cities.com [204.203.224.155]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FAAC14E71 for ; Tue, 20 Jul 1999 13:15:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@3-cities.com) Received: from 3-cities.com (kenn2254.bossig.com [208.26.242.254]) by revolution.3-cities.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA05917; Tue, 20 Jul 1999 13:15:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3794D8C2.DF56F8E7@3-cities.com> Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 13:14:58 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Reply-To: kstewart@3-cities.com Organization: Columbia Basin Virtual Community Project X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adam Nealis Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: when to use mergemaster? References: <3794B65C.113AA944@csl.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Adam Nealis wrote: > > I'm nervous enough when updating a live system, and although > mergemaster looks just the ticket, could someone tell me > when it should be used? > > Is it: > > make buildworld > cp -rp /etc /etc.BAK > /usr/local/sbin/mergemaster > > or something else? From my experience, you follow Nik's treatise and when it comes time to edit /etc, then you use MergeMaster. You can do in minutes that diff'ing and editing seem to take days. See http://www.nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk/FreeBSD/make-world/make-world.html Kent > > Cheers, > Adam. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html Hunting Archibald Stewart, b 1802 in Ballymena, Antrim Co., NIR http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/genealogy/archibald_stewart.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message