From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 22 9:18: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93AF614E9F for ; Wed, 22 Dec 1999 09:18:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #3) id 120pOf-000N4Z-00; Wed, 22 Dec 1999 17:17:57 +0000 Received: from localhost (jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA85510; Wed, 22 Dec 1999 17:17:57 GMT (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 17:17:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Jonathon McKitrick To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mergemaster after upgrade In-Reply-To: <34730.945881969@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote: >> Well i ran mergemaster, and now i am thoroughly confused. I understand >> what it is doing, but the question is, if i leave everything AS-IS, will i >> lose functionality? > >Possibly, yes. In fact, you may lose your machine. For example, if >a new and terrifying feature is introduced into the kernel and it is >turned off in /etc/defaults/rc.conf, you won't have the new rc.conf, so >it's conceivable that the feature may be turned on at boot time. So the best bet is to just carefully go through mergemaster, and figure out what everything means? Then decide whether it needs merging or not? -jm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message