freebsd stable - Mar 2015 - There has to be a better way of merging /etc during a major freebsd-update

On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 10:17:18AM -0500, Adam Vande More
wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 7:05 AM, Peter Olsson <list-freebsd-stable at
jyborn.se
> > wrote:
> 
> > This flag to mergemaster saved a lot of work when I did
> > upgrades the old way, with cvsup and the make steps and
> > then mergemaster:
> >
> 
> https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=221780
> 
> I'd venture to guess the script will work fine on older installs, but
> testing should be done first.
> 
> -- 
> Adam
This seems like an excellent addition fo freebsd-update,
how come it isn't added?
Possibly as a flag, so the default operation isn't changed.

Peter Olsson

On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 12:45 PM, Peter Olsson <
list-freebsd-stable at jyborn.se> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 10:17:18AM -0500, Adam Vande More wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 7:05 AM, Peter Olsson <
> list-freebsd-stable at jyborn.se
> > > wrote:
> >
> > > This flag to mergemaster saved a lot of work when I did
> > > upgrades the old way, with cvsup and the make steps and
> > > then mergemaster:
> > >
> >
> > https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=221780
> >
> > I'd venture to guess the script will work fine on older installs,
but
> > testing should be done first.
> >
> > --
> > Adam
>
> This seems like an excellent addition fo freebsd-update,
> how come it isn't added?
>
It is added, no flag needed.  You are running a version of freebsd-update
which didn't have the feature(8.4).

-- 
Adam