From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 5 14:42: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pemaquid.safeport.com (pemaquid.safeport.com [204.156.12.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCBBA37B403 for ; Fri, 5 Oct 2001 14:41:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by pemaquid.safeport.com (8.11.5/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f95Lfuq22098 for ; Fri, 5 Oct 2001 17:41:57 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from doug@safeport.com) X-Authentication-Warning: pemaquid.safeport.com: doug owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 17:41:56 -0400 (EDT) From: To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: using mergemaster. Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I just upgraded 4.2 ==> 4.4. Everything is virtually "out of the box" so I ran "mergemaster -ai" which adds all the new stuff and replaces all the stuff from the previous mergemaster that has changed. Typically if you are going to a new release or "its been a while" there are about 100 files left to consider. In my case, most of these have not been changed. Because of the way mergemaster runs these files will have a timestamp that is the same (or close enough). Anyway I wrote a script to implement a low tech solution to this, e.g., just update the remaining files that you select by date. If there is any interest I will post it, or otherwise make it available. I have a couple of lexical issues: one with the command line parsing, and one with the best way to match "Mar 2 2000" with "Mar 2 2000". Otherwise it works. I am not sure of the downside to this, but I have upgraded a dozen or so system without any problems. _____ Douglas Denault doug@safeport.com Voice: 301-469-8766 Fax: 301-469-0601 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message