Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2011 13:30:36 -0600 From: Mark Felder <feld@feld.me> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: painful binary upgrade from 8.1 to 8.2 Message-ID: <op.v4jhtaiq34t2sn@cr48.lan> In-Reply-To: <867h3ddped.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> References: <867h3ddped.fsf@red.stonehenge.com>
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On Sun, 06 Nov 2011 13:25:30 -0600, Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com> wrote: > > Why doesn't the freebsd-update command invoke mergemaster with -F? > > Or is there some step that I'm leaving out? > Does freebsd-update follow /etc/mergemaster.rc? # Automatically install files that do not exist AUTO_INSTALL='yes' # Automatically upgrade files that have not been edited AUTO_UPGRADE='yes' # Ignore files that I don't want changed IGNORE_FILES='/etc/motd' # Do not display changes that only affect whitespace #DIFF_FLAG="'.Bub'" # Ignore CVS id lines to stop replacing files where only that line has changed DIFF_OPTIONS='-I$FreeBSD:.*[$]' This is precisely why I still do source upgrades most of the time. But I haven't tried since I started using mergemaster.rc. Regards, Mark
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