Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 11:52:32 +1000 From: Mikhail Goriachev <mikhailg@webanoide.org> To: Andrew Falanga <af300wsm@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How to retrieve the list of files to merge by hand Message-ID: <46524CE0.2040501@webanoide.org> In-Reply-To: <340a29540705211721k1090b5f1rb282b2a4ae870146@mail.gmail.com> References: <340a29540705211721k1090b5f1rb282b2a4ae870146@mail.gmail.com>
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Andrew Falanga wrote: > Hi, > > I just upgraded my box here at home last night and I made a little > mistake (fortunately, not one large enough to keep things from > working). I updated my source tree to 6.2-RELEASE-p4 and did the > "make buildworld" and "make buildkernel." Then I dropped to single > user mode to do the installs for both. At the end, as per some > instructions from a friend, I did "mergemaster -i -a". At the end was > quite a long list of files left for me to merge by hand. This was > actually a surprise to me because I'd updated two boxes at work > earlier in the week and the largest number of file to update by hand > was only 2. > > At any rate, because I was in single user mode, and hadn't started > mergemaster with something like, "mergemaster -i -a | tee > merge.output" or something (that's the small mistake that won't happen > again), I don't have the list of files to merge. > > At any rate, with exception to rc.conf and /etc/ttys, I haven't > modified anything the system uses anyway. Is there a way of > retrieving this list? As a side note, in an effort to get this list > (via a pipe command such as the one above), I reran the mergemaster > command, but got a much different set of results. Did I completely > eliminate any chance I had at getting them? Just run mergemaster again: # cd /usr/src # mergemaster That should do it. Regards, Mikhail. -- Mikhail Goriachev Webanoide Telephone: +61 (0)3 62252501 Mobile Phone: +61 (0)4 38255158 E-Mail: mikhailg@webanoide.org Web: www.webanoide.org
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