Date: 30 Oct 1999 16:02:28 +0200 From: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CVSUP & buildworld Message-ID: <7vetpk$2p2t$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> References: <3819DE31.5DE5344A@nisser.com> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910300041040.17853-100000@propro.oldserver.demon.nl>
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Marc Schneiders <marc@oldserver.demon.nl> wrote: [mergemaster] > I personally prefer to do it by hand. One slip of the finger and > mergemaster has removed a file you do not want to loose... mergemaster will only remove files in the temproot. The most harm you can do is overwriting a customized file under /etc with the distributed version. This is also a non-issue if you make a backup copy of /etc beforehand. > It is not as difficult and tedious as it looks. I used to do this manually, too. However, now that mergemaster has been imported into the system in -CURRENT I switched to using it. Sure, mergemaster doesn't do anything you wouldn't do in a very similar fashion manually, but it certainly saves typing. I'm considering porting mergemaster to OpenBSD. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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