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Date:      Wed, 23 Oct 2013 02:15:14 +0200
From:      Michael Schmiedgen <schmiedgen@gmx.net>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Is freebsd-update braindamaged, or I'm using it wrong?
Message-ID:  <52671512.7000406@gmx.net>
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On 10/01/13 11:16, Ivan Voras wrote:
> This is the first time I've used freebsd-update in years, and I'm
> immediately flagging it as something I won't use in the future. For
> the last half hour it has been forcing me to manually resolve, one by
> one, in an editor, hundreds of "merge conflicts" such as these:
>
>    1 <<<<<<< current version
>    2 # $FreeBSD: release/9.0.0/etc/gettytab 209954 2010-07-12 19:09:18Z bcr $
>    3 =======
>    4 # $FreeBSD: release/9.2.0/etc/gettytab 243623 2012-11-27 19:23:54Z peterj $
>    5 >>>>>>> 9.2-RELEASE
>    6 #       from: @(#)gettytab      5.14 (Berkeley) 3/27/91
>    7 #

Another thing was that I had to invoke pwd_mkdb manually after password
file was merged. I wondered, because behaviour in mergemaster is to
recognize this.

Michael




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