From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 26 17: 9:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 174AD37B401 for ; Sat, 26 Oct 2002 17:09:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.gbronline.com (mail.gbronline.com [12.145.226.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74ED543E6A for ; Sat, 26 Oct 2002 17:09:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from daleco@daleco.biz) Received: from DaleCoportable [12.145.226.193] by mail.gbronline.com (SMTPD32-7.13) id AE5D115F01FE; Sat, 26 Oct 2002 19:07:57 -0500 Message-ID: <035e01c27d4c$f62d36e0$fa00a8c0@DaleCoportable> From: "DaleCo Help Desk" To: "David Banning" , References: <20021026195056.A11787@skytrackercanada.com> Subject: Re: mergemaster question Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2002 19:08:20 -0500 Organization: DaleCo, S.P.---"the solutions people" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2720.3000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 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 From: "David Banning" To: Sent: Saturday, October 26, 2002 6:50 PM Subject: mergemaster question > I am just in the process of upgrading from 4.5S to 4.7 and I will > be running mergemaster. > > One thing I notice using mergemaster is that it seems to take such a long > time. Is there a quicker way? It wants to replace alot of files, > and that's OK for me 95% of the time. > Only a few I want to keep or merge. > > Am I missing something, or is it just a part of upgrading that you must > decide, file by file which will be modified or replaced? > I'm guessing that a) the versatility of FBSD in general and b) the sheer amount of effort involved in keeping up with the entire OS have something to do with this. Seems like it'd be really quite difficult to determine which files _everyone_ would think don't need to be kept or merged. And certainly, you can't depend on everyone to read all the changes themselves. Kevin Kinsey To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message