Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2002 08:55:44 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Jeff Penn <jeff@jrpenn.demon.co.uk> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Updating world with least downtime Message-ID: <20020906155544.ACDAE5D03@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 05 Sep 2002 21:11:21 BST." <20020905201121.GA1059@jrpenn.demon.co.uk>
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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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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