Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2013 20:37:11 +0400 From: "Eugene" <genie@geniechka.ru> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Should I be able to use mergemaster with freebsd-update? Message-ID: <251172C98D1E4A058801784F25BD2360@geniepc2011> In-Reply-To: <201306260222.r5Q2MdJO087350@chilled.skew.org> References: <201306260222.r5Q2MdJO087350@chilled.skew.org>
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Hi all, In case anybody was following this discussion, I have successfully upgraded the system from 8.2 to 8.4 using freebsd-update. The process did have some glitches (in retrospect, minor ones) but mostly they were not related to freebsd-update (like some issues with gmirror and firewall configurations). The data merging phase was quite bearable and reasonable (if a bit tedious) and all the databases got properly updated. Thanks to everyone involved! Eugene -----Original Message----- From: Mike Brown Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2013 6:22 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Should I be able to use mergemaster with freebsd-update? On Tue, Jun 25, 2013, at 15:29, Eugene wrote: > I do not quite understand. Is the freebsd-update upgrade process > completely broken? IMHO it is partially broken; I'm not doing anything special. How broken it is depends on what's getting changed. Most of what the system is designed to do, it indeed does very well. It also overlaps some of the functionality of mergemaster in that it automatically merges as many files as it can, which is nice. Where it is under-designed and under-implemented is in its rudimentary handling of un-mergeable files, and in its total lack of support for the regeneration of /etc/*.db files (like the, uh, rather important password database) and sendmail aliases - things that you would handle via mergemaster in an ordinary, source-based upgrade, but which you must now figure out how to do by hand, without any guidance, and they really don't make it easy for you. <...>
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