On Sat, 5 Feb 2000, Doug Barton wrote:
> Marc Schneiders wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Will Saxon wrote:
> >
> > > Well, apparently we are supposed to replace a bunch of files is /etc
> > > whenever we make world. There is a command called mergemaster that does
> > > this, but the one time i used it (I did not read the directionsvery
> > > carefully) I basically messed everything up.
> >
> > Yes, I don't like mergemaster either.
>
> Out of curiosity, what specifically do you not like about it? I realize
> that not everyone is going to like/use it, but I am always interested in
> ways to improve the program.
>
There is nothing wrong with mergemaster. The problem is me. I am too
impatient and press the wrong button. Then I have to write down the
file I have to edit manually, which means it takes more time for me
than doing things manually. And I have only tried it twice, months
ago. So, please, forgive me if I offended!
After
cd /usr/src/etc
make DESTDIR=DESTDIR distrib etc.
I copy my old /etc to a safe place. Use some perl script found
somewhere to get rid of empty directories in DESTDIR. Then I copy all
DESTDIR/dev as well as DESTDIR/etc to /dev and /etc and put in those
files (after checking diffs) in old etc that I changed. It is easy to
find these with ls -t.
I hope this is not horribly irresponsible, stupid, etc.
--
Marc Schneiders
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