On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 7:47 AM, Steven R. Gerber
<sger...@gerber-systems.com> wrote:
> On 4/7/2011 1:01 AM, Abel Abraham Camarillo Ojeda wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 11:37 PM, Steven R. Gerber
>> <sger...@gerber-systems.com> wrote:
>>> ....
>>> B  B  B  B Going through /etc manually or by sysmerge is tedious.
>>>
>>
>> I wish we had some kind of super-black-magic-mind-reading-hyper-sysmerge
tool...
>>
>>
>
> Dear Abel,
> That was unnecessary.

It was as sysmerge(8) is doing great job.

> My point was that migrating from 4.8/i386 to 4.8/amd64 requires
> virtually no changes to main /etc.

Virtually maybe. Practically for sure.

> But, a fresh install (not an upgrade) makes me (re)verify all of /etc.
> The upgrade FAQ 4.7 -> 4.8 was fairly clear about what parts of /etc
> were touched and needed special attention.

You can use site scripts to make your own changes directly during install.

>
> Thanks,
> Steven

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