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Date:      Wed, 6 May 2009 00:40:09 +0100
From:      Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>
To:        Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: RELENG_7 - has mergemaster changed logic since 7.2-RELEASE?
Message-ID:  <20090506004009.12729c32@gluon.draftnet>
In-Reply-To: <4A00AF76.8010604@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <20090504225012.392fa49f.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> <4A00AF76.8010604@FreeBSD.org>

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On Tue, 05 May 2009 14:28:22 -0700
Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> > Ok, this is strange.
> > 
> > I just upgraded from 7.2-prerelease (as of 20090401) to 7.2-stable
> > as of today, using csup and building world.
> 
> I've read this thread and find the whole thing very odd. In particular
> regarding your case, the last change to mergemaster was done on March
> 23rd, so if you updated a system on April 1st then again on May 4th
> you should have been using the same version of mergemaster.

There was a recent thread on -questions about this issue too,
with the title "mergemaster -U overwriting modified files". I've seen
mergemaster clobber named.conf but I've failed to repeat it despite
changing the revision, file timestamp etc.

-- 
Bruce Cran



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