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From: Jeff Penn <jeff@jrpenn.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Updating world with least downtime
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On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 12:58:54PM -0700, Sameer R. Manek wrote:
> Mergemaster is obviously dependent on how quickly it takes the operator to
> run that command. But if you budget 10 - 15 minutes, it should be good
> enough.

Just a thought...
Couldn't 'mergemaster -p' also include merging configuration files to a 
temporary directory while in multi-user mode, to simplify mergemaster in 
singler-user mode?.

Jeff

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