On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 09:46:22AM +0200, Daniel Gerzo wrote: > Manolis Kiagias wrote: > > > I always use -iU too. > > I've lost motd, passwd, group and master.passwd > > During mergemaster -p I was asked to merge changes to some of these, and > > still they were replaced with the newer versions. I don't know what went > > wrong but have restored them from backup. (I always tar /etc before a > > source upgrade). Upgrading another system using freebsd-update did not > > cause any problem. > > I have the same experience while I was upgrading a few machines > upgrading from RELENG_7 to RELENG_7_2. I haven't experienced when > upgrading from 7.1-R to 7.2-R. > > Here auth.conf, csh.cshrc, hosts, crontab, syslogd.conf, passswd, > master.passwd, group, sysctl.conf motd and maybe some more got > overwritten :-( I had to restore from backups.
When upgrading from 7-STABLE to 7.2-RELEASE mergemaster -s -i -U overwrote all the file I'd changed without asking. Luckily I keep all config files that I've changed in a separate repository, so putting it all back was a question of running an install script. But the change is annoying. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725)
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