From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 16 12:31:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-31-203-60.mmcable.com [65.31.203.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BCFA137B40C for ; Tue, 16 Oct 2001 12:31:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 6348 invoked by uid 100); 16 Oct 2001 19:31:23 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15308.35595.184986.386785@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 14:31:23 -0500 To: "Aaron" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: So lets say you *didnt* use mergemaster... In-Reply-To: <107385834@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Aaron types: > Ignorance is bliss isnt it? I thought cocaine was bliss..... > I've noticed that just about any FreeBSD user I talk to uses mergemaster > after building the world. Well I didnt. And it works fine [its a HLDS > server] but this has me worried. What log term effects will my stupidity > have? I know mergemaster updates config files - but this server has only > a few things changed from the default, so should I just go for it now? Read through the archives. A regularly occuring problem is that login quits working because the pam was updated, names of things in the config file change, and the old config didn't disable the new names. Similar problems can happen with other programs. You also miss bug fixes and the lack in the system startup. If you've changed very little, then mergemaster is mostly a matter of telling it to install things. Personally, I read the diff listings - that's a clue as to what's been changed that I might want to take advantage of. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them your plans. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message