Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 12:06:28 +0100 From: Gert Cuykens <gert.cuykens@gmail.com> To: "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mergemaster -i Message-ID: <ef60af0904120103065e696251@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20041130182842.782525cf@dolphin.local.net> References: <ef60af090411301509630b4f53@mail.gmail.com> <20041130182842.782525cf@dolphin.local.net>
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On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 18:28:42 -0600, Conrad J. Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> wrote: > On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 00:09:13 +0100, Gert Cuykens <gert.cuykens@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > can someone make a options i install everything so you don't have to > > push 58 times i enter i enter i enter i enter :) drives me nuts > > especially when you sometimes have to do enter enter enter to scroll > > down the preview and then accidentally do 1 enter to many > > You can press "q" to interrupt the display of a file. After all, > mergemaster is just piping the file through "more" (or less; not sure > which). > > Mergemaster's already existing "-i" switch tells it to automatically > install any files that don't already exist in the destination directory. > To do as you suggest, though, and simply automatically install > *everything* would defeat the whole purpose of mergemaster. > > There are occasions where, due to some new construct or whatever, a > large number of files require updating (usually under /etc/rc.d). In > that case, it often is easier to simply delete all the existing files > under /etc/rc.d and then run mergemaster -i to automatically install the > new versions. When such a need arises, it will usually be mentioned in > /usr/src/UPDATING (you *do* read that before updating, don't you?). :-) > > HTH > > -- > Conrad J. Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> -- "In Unix veritas" > /usr/src/UPDATING i would if it had more pictures in it :) can we have a mergemaster -d then who deletes everything.
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