From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 1 00:28:50 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 661A516A4CE for ; Wed, 1 Dec 2004 00:28:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: from lakermmtao02.cox.net (lakermmtao02.cox.net [68.230.240.37]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D463C43D41 for ; Wed, 1 Dec 2004 00:28:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from conrads@cox.net) Received: from dolphin.local.net ([68.11.30.24]) by lakermmtao02.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.04.00 201-2131-117-20041022) with ESMTP id <20041201002847.NYTX329.lakermmtao02.cox.net@dolphin.local.net>; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 19:28:47 -0500 Received: from dolphin.local.net (localhost.local.net [127.0.0.1]) by dolphin.local.net (8.13.1/8.13.1) with SMTP id iB10SlDC096465; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 18:28:47 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from conrads@cox.net) Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 18:28:42 -0600 From: "Conrad J. Sabatier" To: Gert Cuykens Message-ID: <20041130182842.782525cf@dolphin.local.net> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 0.9.12b (GTK+ 1.2.10; amd64-portbld-freebsd6.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mergemaster -i X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 00:28:50 -0000 On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 00:09:13 +0100, Gert Cuykens 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 -- "In Unix veritas"