From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 19 20:27:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n0b.san.rr.com (dt051n0b.san.rr.com [204.210.32.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 090ED37BE2D for ; Sat, 19 Feb 2000 20:27:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n0b.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA23372; Sat, 19 Feb 2000 20:25:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Message-ID: <38AF6CD3.833BC9EF@gorean.org> Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 20:25:55 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jonathon McKitrick Cc: Sheldon Hearn , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mergemaster after upgrade References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > > 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? Still catching up on old mail... The answer to your question is yes. I just wanted to point out that there is an option you might want to consider. You can do 'mergemaster -a' which will go through and delete everything that doesn't need attention in /var/tmp/temproot, then you can look them over by hand. When you're sure that you know what all the files do, and what has been changed, you can run 'mergemaster -r' and it will tend only to the files that are left. Just a suggestion, Doug -- "Welcome to the desert of the real." - Laurence Fishburne as Morpheus, "The Matrix" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message