On 27 July 2010 11:09, b. f. <bf1...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Monday 26 July 2010, zaxis wrote: > > I want to upgrade my freebsd 8.0 to 8.1. I have read all the steps > > about upgrading freebsd. I feel mergemaster is difficult to use e.g. > > which parameters should i use ? (you may wish to use -U or -ai or > > -Fi) > > Well, obviously you will get more out of mergemaster if you read the > manpage and take the time to decide which options will work best for > you. But if you can't be bothered to do that, the suggested usage in > /usr/src/UPDATING works for most people. Also, there is an > alternative to mergemaster that is supposed to be easier to use in > some ways: John Baldwin's new port, sysutils/etcupdate. You may want > to take a look at that. > > > b. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" >
here is my mergemaster config. Modify the ignore files to suite your needs then just run mergemaster without any switches. Its not perfect but works for me fine. # cat /etc/mergemaster.rc AUTO_INSTALL=YES AUTO_UPGRADE=YES PRESERVE_FILES=yes PRESERVE_FILES_DIR=/var/mergemaster/preserved-files-`date +%y%m%d-%H%M%S` IGNORE_FILES="/etc/crontab /etc/fstab /etc/group /etc/hosts /etc/inetd.conf /etc/make.conf /etc/master.passwd /etc/motd /etc/newsyslog.conf /etc/ntp.conf /etc/ntp.drift /etc/profile /etc/rc.conf /etc/resolv.conf /etc/services /etc/shells /etc/syslog.conf /etc/ssh/sshd_config /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key.pub /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key.pub /etc/passwd /etc/rc.conf.local /etc/zfs/exports /etc//namedb/named.conf /etc/periodic.conf /etc/hosts.allow /etc/hosts /etc/pf.conf /etc/sysctl.conf /etc/make.conf /etc/src.conf /etc/mail/aliases /etc/mail/mailer.conf /etc/remote /etc/mail/freebsd.mc/etc/mail/ freebsd.cf /etc/mail/freebsd.submit.mc /etc/mail/freebsd.submit.cf" _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
