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Date:      Sat, 1 Sep 2007 13:31:57 +0200
From:      Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
To:        Grant Peel <gpeel@thenetnow.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Last CVSup question.
Message-ID:  <20070901113157.GA69446@owl.midgard.homeip.net>
In-Reply-To: <012301c7ec8a$da6bfa60$6501a8c0@GRANT>
References:  <012301c7ec8a$da6bfa60$6501a8c0@GRANT>

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On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 07:25:51AM -0400, Grant Peel wrote:
> Hopefullly!
> 
> I have been told in the past that I can skip the mergemaster steps.

Can skip?  Sometimes.
Ought to skip?  No.

> 
> Considering I am just going from 6.1 to 6.2 is this still true?
> 
> I have always found the mergemaster process confusing.


IF you do not update the files under /etc then you run a very real risk
of things breaking in strange ways.  Mergemaster is very useful tool for
updating those files.





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Erik Trulsson
ertr1013@student.uu.se



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