* Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-03-30 11:14]: > Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > >On 2004-03-29 15:07, Charles Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>On Mar 29, 2004, at 2:28 PM, Sean Murphy wrote: > [ ... ] > >>>If a tag just the 4_9 Release in the CVSupfile can i just ignore the > >>>mergemaster? also can I just CVSup the sources and build the ones I > >>>want? (see above) > >> > >>Generally one can ignore doing the mergemaster simply for a security > >>patch. > > > >Unless, of course, the security patch fixes problems in /etc files that > >mergemaster *must* update. It's not very difficult to run mergemaster. > >I wouldn't recomment avoiding it altogether. [ ... ] > > Oh, I agree with you: I think mergemaster is a useful tool, and I don't > think it's very difficult to use. > > Reasonable people disagree, however. In particular, people who aren't > familiar with diff generally find mergemaster to be incomprehensible. :-) >
>From a [relative] newbie; it's only incomprehensible the first time or two. -- Joshua A woman should have compassion. -- Kirk, "Catspaw", stardate 3018.2 _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"