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Date:      Thu, 15 Jun 2023 19:41:20 -0700
From:      bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net>
To:        Current FreeBSD <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Cc:        bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net>
Subject:   Re: Using etcupdate resolve, was Re: Surprise null root password
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I want to thank Patrick, Dmitry and Mark for providing
orientation sufficient to make some headway. The Handbook
simply says 

"If etcupdate(8) is not able to merge a file automatically, 
the merge conflicts can be resolved with manual interaction 
by issuing:

# etcupdate resolve

While not wrong, it's certainly less than the whole story 8-)

It's unfortunate that the example posted was a trivial case,
certainly I didn't tamper with BSD.tests.dist and tf was the
correct response. 

If I'm understanding correctly, the file presented by the
df and e options contains essentially all possible versions,
delimited by <<<<<<<<<<<<<, ||||||||||| and >>>>>>>>> 
characters. Once edited, that will become the new local
version of the file. If this is mistaken please say so.

bob prohaska




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