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Date:      Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:36:21 -0700
From:      Charlie Kester <corky1951@comcast.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: I donot like using mergemaster  ?
Message-ID:  <20100726023620.GC34005@comcast.net>
In-Reply-To: <29262747.post@talk.nabble.com>
References:  <29262747.post@talk.nabble.com>

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On Sun 25 Jul 2010 at 18:17:09 PDT zaxis wrote:
>
>I want to upgrade my freebsd 8.0  to 8.1.  I have read all the steps about
>upgrading freebsd. I feel mergemaster  is difficult to use e.g. which
>parameters should i use ?   (you may wish to use -U or -ai or -Fi)

I usually use -p when invoking mergemaster before installworld, and -F
after.  I.e.:

...
# mergemaster -p
# make installworld
# mergemaster -F
...

I don't know what the other mergemaster options do, but I've never felt
the need for them.



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