On Thu, 26 Jul 2007, Jeremie Le Hen wrote: > > configuaration option, it shouldn't be necessary to rebuild all > > your ports. > > I'd like to add that whenever I performed an upgrade between two > FreeBSD major branch I found easier to use sysutils/etcmerge than > mergemaster(8) to upgrade /etc, as the former is far more automated > and prevents a lot of work due to the huge number of changes to > merge. > > Important note (also explained in the "ROUGH DESCRIPTION OF USE" part > of etcmerge manpage): > 1) Make sure your current /etc is up-to-date (IOW run mergemaster(8)) > WRT your current RELENG_6 source tree; > 2) Follow etcmerge manpage to get /var/db/etc corresponding to the > _stock_ /etc directory from your source tree. etcmerge is nice, although I have found it does try to merge the .db files which result in bogus conflicts (just delete the .db files and rebuild the alias, password and/or terminal cap. DB). It's also nice because it doesn't touch your /etc until after everything is merged. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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