Date: Tue, 05 May 2009 00:07:13 +0300 From: Manolis Kiagias <sonic2000gr@gmail.com> To: Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RELENG_7 - has mergemaster changed logic since 7.2-RELEASE? Message-ID: <49FF5901.600@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20090504225012.392fa49f.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> References: <20090504225012.392fa49f.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no>
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Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > Ok, this is strange. > > I just upgraded from 7.2-prerelease (as of 20090401) to 7.2-stable as > of today, using csup and building world. > > As part of that process I did (as I always do) 'mergemaster -iU' after > the 'make installworld' step. > A few files on my machines are modified by me, and thus should nevber > be upgraded: > /etc/dhclient.conf > /etc/motd (mergemeaster will usually ask about this - this time it did > not, it claimed it wasn't user modified, huh?) > /etc/profile > /root/.profile > /etc/passwd (mergemaster sked about it, I pressed 'd', but it was still > upgraded, ugh!) > /etc/group (mergemaster sked about it, I pressed 'd', but it was still > upgraded, ugh!) > > It can be more files, I haven't found out yet. > > Has anyone else seen this? > > I am upgrading my next machine, this time I'll have backups and keep > better notes. > I always use -iU too. I've lost motd, passwd, group and master.passwd During mergemaster -p I was asked to merge changes to some of these, and still they were replaced with the newer versions. I don't know what went wrong but have restored them from backup. (I always tar /etc before a source upgrade). Upgrading another system using freebsd-update did not cause any problem.
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