From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jun 14 20:40:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from wilson.acpub.duke.edu (wilson.acpub.duke.edu [152.3.233.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B966D37B8CC for ; Wed, 14 Jun 2000 20:40:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sto@stat.Duke.EDU) Received: from bobzilla.adsl.duke.edu (bobzilla.adsl.duke.edu [152.16.67.15]) by wilson.acpub.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3/Duke-5.0.0) with ESMTP id XAA18035; Wed, 14 Jun 2000 23:40:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from sto@localhost) by bobzilla.adsl.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA01045 for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 14 Jun 2000 23:40:19 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from sto) Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 23:40:19 -0400 From: "Sean O'Connell" To: FreeBSD Stable List Subject: Re: How often to run mergemaster? Message-ID: <20000614234019.B976@stat.Duke.EDU> Reply-To: "Sean O'Connell" References: <200006150312.XAA11324@sanson.reyes.somos.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <200006150312.XAA11324@sanson.reyes.somos.net>; from fran@reyes.somos.net on Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 11:20:19PM -0400 X-Organization: House of Schmutzli X-Kitties: Bitty Maya CJ Keisha Jacob X-Hound: Bob X-OS-OF-Choice: FreeBSD Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Francisco Reyes stated: > I recently started to track 4.X Stable. How often does one need > to run mergemaster, or even better how does one even know that > it needs to be run? I run it when I notice that things have been changed in /usr/src/etc from my cvsup logs. As a side-note, I became frustrated with mergemaster asking me about a whole bunch of files that I don't want it to touch. I filed a PR that adds an IGNORE_LIST to the mergemaster script that is read out of the .mergemasterrc. See: http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=19217 I apologize for the shameless plug :) S -- 1--------01---------01--------01--------01--------01--------01--------0 Sean O'Connell sean@stat.Duke.EDU To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message