From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 18 11:46:31 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 2D5D016A415 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 11:46:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com) Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com (out1.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0EA143D66 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 11:46:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com) Received: from db2.internal (db2.internal [10.202.2.12]) by frontend1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 143F3DB5C74 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 07:46:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by db2.internal (MEProxy); Wed, 18 Oct 2006 07:46:23 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: yTpD52C8VO5UK4pfTEKYoTnLVMBG89y0CTvge8ZReSeD 1161171983 Received: from gumby.localdomain (bb-87-81-140-128.ukonline.co.uk [87.81.140.128]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 384BF636C for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 07:46:23 -0400 (EDT) From: RW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 12:46:17 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 References: <3A36FE52-9F48-45D2-BEF2-D538331CA299@todoo.biz> <20061016180107.GB76982@mail0.dcoder.net> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200610181246.18873.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> Subject: Re: Upgrading in the same RELENG without shutdown ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 11:46:31 -0000 On Monday 16 October 2006 21:56, bsd wrote: > From what I have read so far I guess I'll stick to the 'classic' > procedure and boot in single user to do the merging things. I never bother with mergemaster if it's just a point release. These usually just involve small patches. No-one is going to change file formats or binary compatability on a point release.