From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Nov 4 18:55:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from po4.glue.umd.edu (po4.glue.umd.edu [128.8.10.124]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BEE9157A9 for ; Thu, 4 Nov 1999 18:55:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bfoz@glue.umd.edu) Received: from glue.umd.edu (poseidon.student.umd.edu [129.2.220.99]) by po4.glue.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA17635; Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:52:34 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3822464B.6FE69D44@glue.umd.edu> Date: Thu, 04 Nov 1999 21:51:55 -0500 From: Brandon Fosdick X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bill Fumerola Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: mergemaster-1.36 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Bill Fumerola wrote: > > On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Brandon Fosdick wrote: > > > Does that cause any problems cvsup'ing to stable with the port already > > installed? if i pkg_delete the port does the base system version go away? not > > that it would be hard to put back... > > the base system installs it in /usr/sbin/mergemaster, the port > put it in /usr/local/sbin/mergemaster. there will be no interoperability > problems unless /usr/local/sbin comes before /usr/sbin in your $PATH. > > pkg_delete'ing the port will do no damage, and is probably the best > thing that you can do. Excellent. Thanks. glad to see that this made it into the base system. -Brandon -- bfoz@glue.umd.edu "Lead, follow, or get run over" "In life there are those who steer, and those who push" "I'm not impatient, the world is too slow" "Life is short, so have fun, play hard, and leave a good looking corpse" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message