Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 13:40:43 -0400 (EDT) From: doug <doug@fledge.watson.org> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mergemaster confusion Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1107121300560.12474@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1107071449190.48457@oceanpt.safeport.com> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1107071449190.48457@oceanpt.safeport.com>
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On Thu, 7 Jul 2011, doug@safeport.com wrote: > I have a mergemaster question. I assume this is my error but do not see what > I did. I am testing remote update procedures so I started with a 7.0 IS0 and > updated it to 7.4. > > My mergemaster.rc has the following directives: > > FREEBSD_ID=yes > AUTO_UPGRADE=yes > AUTO_INSTALL=yes > DELETE_STALE_RC_FILES=yes > COMP_CONFS=yes > > plus some diff options. As this was a system with nothing changed except for > group, passwd, and csh.cshrc, I expected mergemaster to update all the other > files. I think from the code the value does not matter for the first three so > yes would be ok (if I am correct). > > As this did not work (as I expected), I retried with mergemaster -rFUi > getting the same result. What did I do wrong? I was afraid that was the answer. Dusting off my script seems to be it.
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