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Date:      Fri, 24 Nov 2000 10:57:27 -0800
From:      Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com>
To:        Gene Harris <geneh@tetronsoftware.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Using MergeMaster
Message-ID:  <3A1EBA17.65FE598E@urx.com>
References:  <51F9B228ED26D311A17700A0C9982664013F40@tetboss.internal.tetronsoftware.com>

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Gene Harris wrote:
> 
> I have two simple questions about mergemaster.
> 
> When is it appropriate to run mergemaster?  I usually update my 4.x-STABLE
> sources once per month.  I haven't been trying to merge changes in /etc, but
> I noticed that my sendmail version and sendmail.cf versions were badly out
> of sync and I manually update sendmail.cf from freebsd.cf.

It is appropriate everytime they are upgraded. If you don't follow the
cvsup changes, than I would think that is everytime you do an
installworld. Otherwise, you will have installed a module and haven't
installed the configuration file that it needs.

> 
> Is it appropriate to just run mergemaster by typing the command and letting
> it run its course?

Not unless you have configuration files you want to redo. For example,
I have a rc.firewall that has additional stuff and if they update it,
my rc firewall disappears. My root abbreviations also disappear along
with my modified dot."files" that I have setup for typical new user
additions.

Kent

> 
> Many Thanks,
> 
>                 Gene Harris
>          http://www.tetronsoftware.com
>         FreeBSD Samba PostgreSQL Apache
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Kent Stewart
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