Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 13:14:58 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> To: Adam Nealis <adamn@csl.com> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: when to use mergemaster? Message-ID: <3794D8C2.DF56F8E7@3-cities.com> References: <3794B65C.113AA944@csl.com>
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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
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