On 12/27/2010 16:40, Damien Fleuriot wrote:


On 12/27/10 11:58 PM, Clifton Royston wrote:

   OK, and oh well...  I wish there were some way to automate the diffing
out of the $FreeBSD lines.  I suppose those might be the artifact of
some previous upgrade, so that the file version present is not the one
expected for FreeBSD 6.1.

   -- Clifton



Wait, do you mean like, mergemaster -F ?

Excerpt from the manual:
      -F          If the files differ only by VCS Id ($FreeBSD) install
the new file.


I've discovered this rather recently, it's a *lifesaver*

This comes from fbsd7's version though, I can not say for the one you're
still running on fbsd6

You always want to run mergemaster from the version you are upgrading _to_. It doesn't happen often (by design) but occasionally mergemaster has to grow "special knowledge" of specific files/directories/etc. in a new FreeBSD version.


hth,

Doug

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