From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 24 11: 2:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n37.san.rr.com (dt051n37.san.rr.com [204.210.32.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67DAC37B479 for ; Fri, 24 Nov 2000 11:02:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from FreeBSD.org (Studded@master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n37.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA84786; Fri, 24 Nov 2000 11:02:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from DougB@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: <3A1EBB48.4EBC9110@FreeBSD.org> Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 11:02:32 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gene Harris Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Using MergeMaster References: <51F9B228ED26D311A17700A0C9982664013F40@tetboss.internal.tetronsoftware.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Gene Harris wrote: > > I have two simple questions about mergemaster. > > When is it appropriate to run mergemaster? Whenever you update your system binaries. Basically, you want to keep the sources in /etc/ updated to the same level as your system as a whole. > Is it appropriate to just run mergemaster by typing the command and letting > it run its course? You need to read the man page first. Make sure you take good backups, and the first few times you run it you should probably use the -v switch. Good luck, Doug -- So what I want to know is, where does the RED brick road go? Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message