Mergemaster

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Andrew J Caines wrote:

>Rob,
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>>I will probably recompile the whole system.
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>Waste of time and of no relevance to the problem. If you want to do
>something again to ensure currency, remove and cvsup your sources.
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>>Have only used mergemaser  once, and somehow everything became a mess. 
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>Having used it many times in many situations since before it was part of
>the system and given the lack of any avalanch of reports on the lists, I'm
>quite confident you messed it up and that mergmaster works very well.
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>>Now I just compare  timestamps and do it manually.
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>You are certainly missing some steps which mergmaster handles.
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>No comment on recompiling /etc/rc.
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>I suggest following my earlier advice and running mergmaster.
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>-Andrew-
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For now there's nothing to merge with..  First impressions are generally 
the most important.  Would use it if I had some test bed to figure out 
what the hell I'm doing.  I found the program unintuitive and cryptic.  
Maybe I need a manual next to me if I try it.   Like i said, this was a 
binary iso build, so there was no possibility of merging anything.  I 
just rely on the skill of the release people to do a good job on the 
iso.   one thiing I found  about burning  iso's, you should do a 
complete erase  of the CD,, a quick erase many times wont work.

Thanks for the advice   Rob