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To: Jeff Penn <jeff@jrpenn.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Updating world with least downtime 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 05 Sep 2002 21:11:21 BST."
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Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2002 08:55:44 -0700
From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
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> Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 21:11:21 +0100
> From: Jeff Penn <jeff@jrpenn.demon.co.uk>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
> 
> 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?.

Not -p. But you should be able to use -D to do this. I plan on doing
exactly this later today when I upgrade one of my systems. I suspect I
will make this my "standard" way of merging files.

This was suggested to me by David Schultz down the hill at
UC-Berkeley <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU>.

R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman@es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634

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