Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2021 20:47:28 +0100 From: Michal Meloun <meloun.michal@gmail.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CURRENT, usr/src on git, howto "mergemaster"? Message-ID: <b255fc6b-f5f7-fc91-5594-ad67bb98fd9d@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20210104185914.GA19556@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> References: <CANCZdfqPzjUt9Vcw2DsoM0470CcbWe0z15RcMBczJeQpJqF6EQ@mail.gmail.com> <0F14842F-2C85-4ED3-B4C9-D2AA12A55464@gmail.com> <20210104185914.GA19556@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
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On 04.01.2021 19:59, Steve Kargl wrote: > On Mon, Jan 04, 2021 at 10:30:28AM -0800, Enji Cooper wrote: >> >>> On Jan 4, 2021, at 10:19, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote: >>> >>> mergemaster has been on its way out since well before the switch to git. >>> It's been disfavored for at least a decade and basically unmaintained in >>> the base for maybe last 5 years. Apart from major breakage, only doc >>> changes have happened in that time. >> >> Adding to this: it has no maintainer, it’s less featureful, and it lacks tests. Once I switched to etcupdate a few years back I never looked back at mergemaster. >> >> I honestly think it should be deprecated in 13.x and removed in 14.x. It’s been several major releases since it’s been unofficially deprecated. >> >> -Enji >> > > For something that has been disfavored for a decade, unmaintained > for at least 5 years, and now seemly unofficially deprecated, it > seems strange that /usr/src/UPDATING does not mention etcupdate > in the COMMON ITEMS section. > > % svn info UPDATING | grep -i vision > Revision: 367909 > % svn blame UPDATING > ... > 64477 imp To rebuild everything and install it on the current system. > 64477 imp ----------------------------------------------------------- > ... > 262619 jmg mergemaster -Fp [5] > 262619 jmg mergemaster -Fi [4] > > % svn log -r 262619 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > r262619 | jmg | 2014-02-28 11:51:47 -0800 (Fri, 28 Feb 2014) | 3 lines > > since -F is safe, and an update from 10-HEAD to 10-STABLE is sooo bloody > anoying w/o it.. recommend people use -F too... > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > etcupdate first appeared in the tree on 2012-07-13 (r238423) > Moreover mergemaster is still officially documented and recommend as only right method in FreeBSD handbook. See https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/makeworld.html. World is moving, we may have new tools but each deprecation should be, in this order: 1) well announced 2) adjusted in the handbook 3) implemeted Michal
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