From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 20 14:21:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from p1m2.prime.net.ua (P1M5.prime.net.ua [195.64.229.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98EB41542B for ; Tue, 20 Jul 1999 14:21:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andyo@prime.net.ua) Received: from prime.net.ua (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by andyo.prime.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA06771 for ; Wed, 21 Jul 1999 00:00:16 +0300 (EET DST) Message-ID: <3794E350.A8D9D4E6@prime.net.ua> Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 00:00:02 +0300 From: =?koi8-r?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA=20=F7=2E=20=EF=CC=C5=CA=CE=C9=CB?= (Andy V. Oleynik) Reply-To: andyo@prime.net.ua Organization: =?koi8-r?Q?=ED=2D=E9=CE=C6=CF?= X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: ru, uk, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: when to use mergemaster? References: <3794B65C.113AA944@csl.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 > make *world or make upgrade :) > cp -rp /etc /etc.BAK > /usr/local/sbin/mergemaster Generally I beleave it's enough to run mergemaster after very 1st makeworld or upgrade since IMHO /etc stuff doesnt radically changes inside branch. What gurus will say? > > or something else? > > Cheers, > Adam. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Andy V. Oleynik (When U aim for perfection, U discover it's a moving target ö80) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message