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Date:      Sun, 14 Mar 2010 01:29:43 -0800
From:      Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com>
To:        Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: I broke my SSH to jails after 7.2-8.0 src upgrade
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On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 9:30 PM, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 03/11/10 20:33, Garrett Cooper wrote:
>> I've done a few RELENG_8_0 to STABLE-8 to 9-CURRENT upgrades lately
>> and mergemaster was goofing up the contents a bit based on the RCS
>> versions. I had to hand-edit a crapload of stuff going from 8 to 9,
>> and I still don't trust mergemaster's automatic merging logic because
>> it goofs up on /etc/group // /etc/passwd still (doesn't merge
>> anything, discards my info, etc) for starters.
>
> It would be really great if you could submit a proper bug report for
> this. If there are underlying problems with mergemaster I want to fix them.
>
> Meanwhile, mergemaster doesn't have an 'automatic merging logic' of its
> own. It either uses mtree for the -U option, or sdiff if you merge by
> hand. Without more information, it's hard to provide more useful
> assistance.

I'll definitely provide more helpful feedback when I have more helpful
data and steps to reproduce the `issues' that I'm seeing.

>> -a doesn't actually do any merging though, FWIW:
>
> Thanks for helping the user with this information. :)

Np... thanks for the help automating things ;)...
-Garrett



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