From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Apr 24 8:16:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mired.org (dsl-64-192-6-133.telocity.com [64.192.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3771337B420 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 08:16:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 55251 invoked by uid 100); 24 Apr 2002 14:55:59 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15558.51070.489381.32277@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 09:55:58 -0500 To: Doug Barton Cc: "Philip J. Koenig" , stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: mergemaster theory (was: Re: /etc/defaults/rc.conf theory) In-Reply-To: <20020423222117.U66402-100000@master.gorean.org> References: <20020423103747777.AAA735@empty1.ekahuna.com@pc02.ekahuna.com> <20020423222117.U66402-100000@master.gorean.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: Mike Meyer X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.52 (Python 2.2 on FreeBSD/i386) Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In <20020423222117.U66402-100000@master.gorean.org>, Doug Barton typed: > On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Philip J. Koenig wrote: > > Yes, but the problem I usually have is twofold: I usually run > > mergemaster in single-user mode, > You don't have to do that. Nothing you install in /etc (except > hosts.allow) affects a running system.... I usually mergemaster in X. :) While I agree that you dno't have to do that, there are *other* things you have to worry about. Like /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/mail/mailer.conf. Like /etc/hosts.allow, these are things that if you've changed, you need to make sure the changes propagate to the new version. I also run mergemaster single-user. It's not because I'm worried about changes, it's because I just installed the world in single-user mode, and want to make sure that the new configuration stuff is in place and working properly for that world. The only way to do the latter is to reboot, so I do the mergemaster in single-user mode as well. > > and as such if I run into some kind of difficulty (not sure whether to > > install/merge/delete) and want to do something like take a detailed look > > at or backup a file first, I can't switch to another console to look > > at/change things. > Well, the default option is to do nothing, which will leave the > file for you to look at later. It may cost you more rebooting, but at > least you can deal with it at your convenience. Personally, I just Control-Z out of mergemaster for most such things. Every so often I do leave it and run mergemaster again. That doesn't require another reboot - I just do it immediately. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message