Thus spake Kevin Oberman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > For a modern system and a reasonable disk, this is trivial. I have a > system which MUST not be down for over 15 minutes and I can do it > quite easily unless I really fumble something in mergemaster. I do > always merge a few files later and tend to install most changes very > quickly, having ode the same upgrade on a non-critical system just > before I do the critical one so I know what to expect. > > The actual installworld time on my 1GHZ system is about 5 minutes > (5:34 last time).
Nice record. There ought to be a better solution than ``run mergemaster really fast and hope nothing goes wrong,'' though. For example, you could use mergemaster with -D on a copy of /etc and commit the copy in single user mode. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message