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Date:      Mon, 9 May 2022 22:37:25 -0600
From:      Gary Aitken <freebsd@dreamchaser.org>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: resolving merges on upgrade
Message-ID:  <0612d131-9435-4535-adfd-e409994279ad@dreamchaser.org>
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One more try, as I didn't get any responses and I'm reluctant to proceed

> I'm in the process of doing an upgrade from 11.4-RELEASE to 12.3-RELEASE.> I teed the output of upgrade to get a copy of the output:
>   freebsd-update -r 12.3-RELEASE upgrade | tee /some-path.log
> At some point it complains that
> it can't merge some files in /etc, and that it can't invoke vi
> because vi's stdin and stdout must be a terminal. Then "do the
> changes look reasonable"
> 
> So... I said yes thinking I would look at them later before
> continuing.

However, I can't find the merged output of the files of concern.
  
> Before doing a /usr/sbin/freebsd-update install where can I find the
> newly accepted merged file so I can look at it?
> 
> I tried find / | grep etc/passwd and only found the old version in
> /etc/passwd.






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