From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 22 1: 8:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from siafu.iconnect.co.ke (upagraha.iconnect.co.ke [209.198.248.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 670F537B71C for ; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 01:08:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wash@poeza.iconnect.co.ke) Received: from [212.22.161.3] (helo=ns2.iconnect.co.ke) by siafu.iconnect.co.ke with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 14g13N-000AIK-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 12:06:45 +0300 Received: from amavis by ns2.iconnect.co.ke with scanned-ok (Exim 3.12 #1) id 14g14q-0004rK-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 12:08:16 +0300 Received: from host-64-110-74-50.interpacket.net ([64.110.74.50] helo=poeza.iconnect.co.ke) by ns2.iconnect.co.ke with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1) id 14g14l-0004ls-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 12:08:12 +0300 Received: from wash by poeza.iconnect.co.ke with local (Exim 3.20 #1) id 14g16q-00019W-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 12:10:20 +0300 Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 12:10:20 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington To: FBSD-Q Subject: A little failing Message-ID: <20010322121019.A4080@poeza.iconnect.co.ke> Mail-Followup-To: Odhiambo Washington , FBSD-Q Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="pWyiEgJYm5f9v55/" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD poeza.iconnect.co.ke 4.3-BETA FreeBSD 4.3-BETA X-Mailer: Mutt http://www.mutt.org/ X-Location: Mombasa, KE, East Africa Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --pWyiEgJYm5f9v55/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi people, Some years back I read in my literature class a situation that can be termed a 'little failing' - not a total failure but in actual sense it is a real failure.=20 Now I am back, with a failure after margemaster. I always try my best to let mergemaster be verbose but even with all that noise I seem to miss something and that is what I beg to ask the gurus about. o If I tell mergemaster to merge the 2 files (installed one and the temp one), what is the aggregate effect as far as mu customizations in the=20 installed version are concerned? o When I take a look at the diffs and feel that I just don't want to install the file in the temporary dir I'd chose 'm' and I'd be=20 dropped to a % : What am I supposed to do at that prompt? o Would it be okay for me to just install everything from the temp dir (aka mergemaster 'blindmode' then start painfully modifying the files to= =20 put back my customizations while still in single user mode? It sure wastes productive time but seems to be the soundest way if someone does not tell me a better way. I just did a mergemaster and ended up seeing an error like: source_rc_confs : not found The box would read my rc.conf and probably many other rc.*=20 Which file results into this situation? What is the better option for mergemaster - the monster of all UPDATES (to me, that is) ;-) TIA -Wash -- Odhiambo Washington Inter-Connect Ltd., wash@iconnect.co.ke 5th Flr Furaha Plaza Tel: 254 11 222604 Nkrumah Rd., Fax: 254 11 222636 PO Box 83613 MOMBASA, KE. Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobo= dy=20 has thought. -Albert Szent-Gyorgyi=20 --pWyiEgJYm5f9v55/ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6ucF7A2k+MNyI/bERAuFkAKChHrc/SGHPULR+8DT2dMyUIMXNDACfbeGm DeBptC6mG13r0Hq3yZ9rhqw= =iCzm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --pWyiEgJYm5f9v55/-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message