Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 23:53:26 -0700 From: Studded <Studded@dal.net> To: wwoods@cybcon.com Cc: FreebSD Current <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: New port - MERGEMASTER - Message-ID: <36020366.A23EA001@dal.net> References: <XFMail.980917204745.wwoods@cybcon.com>
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For future reference, you might want to ask the port's maintainer before you mail the lists, and in a situation like this you are better off just downloading the port, which contains a spiffy man page and everything. :) Also, cross-posting is a bad thing, this is a question so it belongs on -questions. William Woods wrote: > > I noticed the new port "mergemaster" to help with merging new scripts and such > with old....where would I find docs on this, I saw the "help" section that is > with it , but would like to understand a little more about this before I use it. In addition to the man page, the script itself is a Bourne shell script and is heavily commented. I'm assuming that the help section you referred to is the port's DESCR file: The mergemaster script is designed to aid you in updating the various configuration and other files associated with FreeBSD. The script produces a temporary root environment using /usr/src/etc/Makefile which builds the temporary directory structure from / down, then populates that environment with the various files. It then compares each file in that environment to its installed counterpart. When the script finds a change in the new file, or there is no installed version of the new file it gives you four options to deal with it. You can install the new file as is, delete the new file, merge the old and new files (as appropriate) using sdiff(1) or leave the file in the temporary root environment to merge by hand later. Enjoy, Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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