On 2012-10-29, bofh <goodb...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I kept reading - is sysmerge for use only on upgrades, for merging new >> /etc things into the existing config?
Yes. >> Is that what' I'm missing? So, since I did a full fidks/new install, >> and then manually added the changes from my old box, sysmerge >> essentially did nothing for me, since i started from a brand new >> 5.2... You can save a lot of time by doing an upgrade from the install kernel, then reboot/sysmerge/pkg_add -u. This has worked reliably for quite some time (and over the last few releases, sysmerge has got smarter and asks fewer questions).
