Bug 43959
| Summary: | encourage mergemaster in INSTALL.txt | ||
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| Product: | Documentation | Reporter: | Yung-Sheng Tang <freebsd> |
| Component: | Books & Articles | Assignee: | Bruce A. Mah <bmah> |
| Status: | Closed FIXED | ||
| Severity: | Affects Only Me | ||
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Version: | Latest | ||
| Hardware: | Any | ||
| OS: | Any | ||
Responsible Changed From-To: freebsd-doc->bmah I ought to look at this. State Changed From-To: open->feedback The text in question really applies to binary upgrades. sysinstall attempts to do some updating of configuration files, similar to what mergemaster(8) does, but in a more primitive fashion. So I don't think that mergemaster(8) is really applicable to this situation. mergemaster(8) is definitely recommended for source upgrades, and, as far as I can tell, is documented as such. Can I close this PR? Adding to audit trail: ------- Forwarded Message Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 21:36:20 +0800 (CST) From: Yung-Sheng Tang <freebsd@hoolan.org> To: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: docs/43959: encourage mergemaster in INSTALL.txt On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > mergemaster requires the source distributions, whereas a binary > upgrade doesn't. If we change INSTALL.TXT as you suggested, we'd have > to require that users install the source distributions too (or at least > setc). > > In the case you mentioned, one can at least boot to single-user mode to > repair whatever problems there are. You typically would want to do > that anyways. > > I agree with you that binary upgrades aren't perfect. I'm not a big > fan of them myself. :-p It's a pity that, I am. :) Makeing world all the time would be a nightmare that it takes too much time on my outdated machine. Nowaday hard disks is so cheap that I would install the source distribution to support mergemaster even I don't intend to upgrade from sources. Anyway, thank you for your response. You may close the PR if you wish. Tang ------- End of Forwarded Message State Changed From-To: feedback->closed Submitter says I can close this PR. |
If mergemaster is officially supported, I recommend that we update INSTALL.{txt,html} <3.1.1 Upgrade Overview> to include the procedure of running mergemaster after upgrade.