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Date:      Thu, 22 Mar 2001 12:10:20 +0300
From:      Odhiambo Washington <wash@iconnect.co.ke>
To:        FBSD-Q <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   A little failing
Message-ID:  <20010322121019.A4080@poeza.iconnect.co.ke>

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Hi people,
Some years back I read in my literature class a situation that can be
termed a 'little failing' - not a total failure but in actual sense it is
a real failure.=20
Now I am back, with a failure after margemaster. I always try my best to
let mergemaster be verbose but even with all that noise I seem to miss
something and that is what I beg to ask the gurus about.

o If I tell mergemaster to merge the 2 files (installed one and the temp
  one), what is the aggregate effect as far as mu customizations in the=20
 installed version are concerned?

o When I take a look at the diffs and feel that I just don't want to
  install the file in the temporary dir I'd chose 'm' and I'd be=20
  dropped to a % : What am I supposed to do at that prompt?

o Would it be okay for me to just install everything from the temp dir
  (aka mergemaster 'blindmode' then start painfully modifying the files to=
=20
  put back my customizations while still in single user mode? It sure
  wastes productive time but seems to be the soundest way if someone does
  not tell me a better way.

I just did a mergemaster and ended up seeing an error like:

source_rc_confs : not found

The box would read my rc.conf and probably many other rc.*=20
Which file results into this situation?

What is the better option for mergemaster - the monster of all UPDATES (to
me, that is) ;-)

TIA

-Wash

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Odhiambo Washington  Inter-Connect Ltd.,
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Tel: 254 11 222604   Nkrumah Rd.,
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Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobo=
dy=20
has thought. -Albert Szent-Gyorgyi=20

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