On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 7:11 PM, Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> wrote: > On 2012-10-29, bofh <goodb...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> I kept reading - is sysmerge for use only on upgrades, for merging new >>> /etc things into the existing config? > You can save a lot of time by doing an upgrade from the install kernel, > then reboot/sysmerge/pkg_add -u. This has worked reliably for quite some > time (and over the last few releases, sysmerge has got smarter and asks > fewer questions).
Now that I understand it, yeah. Someone needs to write an unsysmerge - takes all the configs in /etc and /var and compares them to etcXX.tgz and xetcXX.tgz and generates a patch to be applied against a new install :) -- http://www.glumbert.com/media/shift http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGvHNNOLnCk "This officer's men seem to follow him merely out of idle curiosity." -- Sandhurst officer cadet evaluation. "Securing an environment of Windows platforms from abuse - external or internal - is akin to trying to install sprinklers in a fireworks factory where smoking on the job is permitted." -- Gene Spafford learn french: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30v_g83VHK4
