From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 16 08:30:02 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6A0FE98B for ; Tue, 16 Sep 2014 08:30:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx.tp2.us.calorieking.net (mx.tp2.us.calorieking.net [74.53.216.228]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3B915862 for ; Tue, 16 Sep 2014 08:30:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx.sl1.us.calorieking.net (mx.sl1.us.calorieking.net [173.193.161.29]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx.tp2.us.calorieking.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A16B3F40EF for ; Tue, 16 Sep 2014 01:02:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from netserv.sl1.us.calorieking.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mx.sl1.us.calorieking.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADED1131082 for ; Tue, 16 Sep 2014 01:02:48 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at calorieking.com Received: from mx.sl1.us.calorieking.net ([127.0.0.1]) by netserv.sl1.us.calorieking.net (mx.sl1.us.calorieking.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id l6h0W7RJkVt1 for ; Tue, 16 Sep 2014 01:02:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from egeria.internal (114.179.70.115.static.exetel.com.au [115.70.179.114]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx.sl1.us.calorieking.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id EA2DB131081 for ; Tue, 16 Sep 2014 01:02:47 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5417EEA4.401@calorieking.com> Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 16:02:44 +0800 From: Gregory Orange User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Remove distribution sets References: <54169E42.5020108@calorieking.com> <20140915120948.569f5458.freebsd@edvax.de> <54179A2A.8090406@calorieking.com> In-Reply-To: <54179A2A.8090406@calorieking.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-FamilyHealth-MailScanner-ID: 3A16B3F40EF.987C6 X-FamilyHealth-MailScanner-VirusCheck: Found to be clean X-FamilyHealth-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-15, required 6, autolearn=not spam, BAYES_00 -15.00) X-FamilyHealth-MailScanner-From: gregory.orange@calorieking.com X-FamilyHealth-MailScanner-Watermark: 1411459381.97847@J4ruj93zKY2tS3IvXnyydQ X-Spam-Status: No X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 08:30:02 -0000 On 16/09/14 10:02, Gregory Orange wrote: > Manual intervention: > lots of prompting with "these files don't match, what do I do?" and > frustratingly, an editor session opens up to compare - in the vast > majority (all but a handful) of cases the differences are just the > header line which doesn't matter to me. Ah, I can ignore the old versions by making MergeChanges in /etc/freebsd-update.conf contain very little, if anything. This greatly reduces the manual labour! That plus making Components in freebsd-update.conf only contain kernel/generic and world/base and I reckon that'll about do it.