From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 6 23:56:20 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1BE51065672 for ; Mon, 6 Feb 2012 23:56:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from conrads@cox.net) Received: from eastrmfepo202.cox.net (eastrmfepo202.cox.net [68.230.241.217]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F6FA8FC08 for ; Mon, 6 Feb 2012 23:56:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from eastrmimpo110.cox.net ([68.230.241.223]) by eastrmfepo202.cox.net (InterMail vM.8.01.04.00 201-2260-137-20101110) with ESMTP id <20120206235614.TRUM2803.eastrmfepo202.cox.net@eastrmimpo110.cox.net>; Mon, 6 Feb 2012 18:56:14 -0500 Received: from serene.no-ip.org ([98.164.86.55]) by eastrmimpo110.cox.net with bizsmtp id WnwE1i0031BeFqy02nwEHF; Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:56:14 -0500 X-CT-Class: Clean X-CT-Score: 0.00 X-CT-RefID: str=0001.0A020206.4F30689E.00AC,ss=1,re=0.000,fgs=0 X-CT-Spam: 0 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.1 cv=WQqs1yVxB/LStoMAkzoC5Xv3XcTv+XIPGMbMKXtsyc0= c=1 sm=1 a=G8Uczd0VNMoA:10 a=kj9zAlcOel0A:10 a=fdHYxQQoAueMHNSmXppgDg==:17 a=s1O25tkdAAAA:8 a=kviXuzpPAAAA:8 a=0jS2-UPQyoqFdbWeqPMA:9 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 a=OyOq_G8mXAEA:10 a=4vB-4DCPJfMA:10 a=fdHYxQQoAueMHNSmXppgDg==:117 X-CM-Score: 0.00 Authentication-Results: cox.net; none Received: from cox.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by serene.no-ip.org (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q16NuDAt001549; Mon, 6 Feb 2012 17:56:13 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from conrads@cox.net) Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2012 17:56:08 -0600 From: "Conrad J. Sabatier" To: Warren Block Message-ID: <20120206175608.1f2c9502@cox.net> In-Reply-To: References: <4F2F17D4.1070206@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0 (GTK+ 2.24.6; amd64-portbld-freebsd10.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Questions , Net Warrior Subject: Re: Mergemaster X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:56:20 -0000 On Sun, 5 Feb 2012 17:40:14 -0700 (MST) Warren Block wrote: > On Sun, 5 Feb 2012, Net Warrior wrote: > > > Hi there. > > > > I found very tedious when , after a makeworld the mergemaster > > process to say (i) to install/upgrade/replace/ with the new file, > > specially when there are a lot of files I was reading the > > documentation but it's not clear to me which option to use to > > automate the process, which is the right one, or combination? > > > > -U -F -iF? > > -Ui takes a long time the first time, then is much better the next > time. _______________________________________________ One shortcut that works very well if you haven't made any customizations there that you're afraid will be overwritten, is to 'rm -rf /etc/rc.d' before running mergemaster, so it can just automatically add all the new files without prompting. HTH -- Conrad J. Sabatier conrads@cox.net