Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 12:21:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org> To: Steve Watt <steve@Watt.COM> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: mergmaster major weirdness Message-ID: <20020417121939.E4228-100000@master.gorean.org> In-Reply-To: <200204170831.g3H8VAUa012599@wattres.Watt.COM>
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On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Steve Watt wrote:
> I just did a fresh update to -stable for the syncookie problem (and it's
> been gosh, more than 2 months uptime on that box!), and besides the ATA
> tags brokenness issue, I ran over another interesting problem.
>
> It appears that mergemaster *missed* a couple of files
The code in mergemaster that handles these comparisons is very
simple.
for COMPFILE in `find . -type f -size +0`; do
Therefore, if the files existed, and were of size greater than zero,
mergemaster would have showed them to you. Lots of things are possible,
such as you hitting 'd' twice instead of once, bugs in find, bugs in
/usr/src/etc/Makefile....
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