Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 11:56:46 +0100 From: Michael Cardell Widerkrantz <mc@hack.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 8.2/7.4-RELEASEs Announced... Message-ID: <86zkpkwff5.fsf@brain.hack.org> References: <4D66CCFF.9020903@buffalo.edu>
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Ken Smith, 2011-02-24 22:26 (+0100): > Just a quick note for those of you who are not subscribed to the > freebsd-announce mail list... > > 8.2-RELEASE and 7.4-RELEASE have been announced. The announcement > messages are available here: > > http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.2R/announce.html > http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.4R/announce.html > > Enjoy. :-) Great news. However, a freebsd-update from a straight binary installed 8.1-RELEASE gives me a dialogue to merge a lot of files in /etc/ with just the $Id$ tag being different. That is, I get: The following changes, which occurred between FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE and FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE have been merged into /etc/manpath.config: --- current version +++ new version @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ -# $FreeBSD: src/gnu/usr.bin/man/manpath/manpath.config,v 1.26.2.1.4.1 2010/06/14 02:09:06 kensmith Exp $ +# $FreeBSD: src/gnu/usr.bin/man/manpath/manpath.config,v 1.26.2.1.6.1 2010/12/21 17:09:25 kensmith Exp $ # # This file is read by manpath(1) to configure the mandatory manpath, # optional manpath and to map each path element to a manpath element. # The format is: # Does this look reasonable (y/n)? I'm afraid this will go on for all files in /etc. What just happened? How can I avoid it? I had this problem before and then in my frustration just commented out this line in freebsd-update.conf: #MergeChanges /etc/ /var/named/etc/ /boot/device.hints I got lucky that time, but is this really safe? What if, say, a new daemon has been installed in the upgrade and needs a new user. Any suggestions? -- http://hack.org/mc/ Use plain text e-mail, please. OpenPGP welcome, 0xE4C92FA5.
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