Re: painful binary upgrade from 8.1 to 8.2

2011-11-07 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 06/11/2011 19:25, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: When following the instructions at http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.2R/announce.html to go from 8.1 to 8.2, I'm presented during the command: freebsd-update upgrade -r 8.2-RELEASE with no less than *** 322 *** files that differ only

painful binary upgrade from 8.1 to 8.2

2011-11-06 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
When following the instructions at http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.2R/announce.html to go from 8.1 to 8.2, I'm presented during the command: freebsd-update upgrade -r 8.2-RELEASE with no less than *** 322 *** files that differ only by the CVS tag. After hitting about 150 of these with

Re: painful binary upgrade from 8.1 to 8.2

2011-11-06 Thread Mark Felder
On Sun, 06 Nov 2011 13:25:30 -0600, Randal L. Schwartz mer...@stonehenge.com wrote: Why doesn't the freebsd-update command invoke mergemaster with -F? Or is there some step that I'm leaving out? Does freebsd-update follow /etc/mergemaster.rc? # Automatically install files that do not

Re: painful binary upgrade from 8.1 to 8.2

2011-11-06 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Mark == Mark Felder f...@feld.me writes: Mark Does freebsd-update follow /etc/mergemaster.rc? No, apparently it just calls classic merge, which doesn't have any kind of ignore CVS tags. No wonder it's painful. But surely, I'm not the only one using freebsd-update. Does everyone else put up

Re: painful binary upgrade from 8.1 to 8.2

2011-11-06 Thread Frank Shute
On Sun, Nov 06, 2011 at 11:54:27AM -0800, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Mark == Mark Felder f...@feld.me writes: Mark Does freebsd-update follow /etc/mergemaster.rc? No, apparently it just calls classic merge, which doesn't have any kind of ignore CVS tags. No wonder it's painful. But