Upgrade from 7.1-RELEASE to 7.2-RELEASE through freebsd update

[Doug Barton]

Ruben de Groot wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 10:34:54AM +0200, Erwan David typed:
>> 	I tried to upgrade my 7.1-RELEASE into 7.2-RELEASE. However
>> freebsd-update kept asking me to merge every file in /etc whose $Id$
>> line changed (that makes about all files).
>>
>> Is there a way, as with mergemaster, to make it not consider the $Id$
>> line for the manual merge ?

Step 1, 'man mergemaster'  :)
Step 2, pay special attention to the -F option
Step 3, pay more special attention to the -U option

But seriously folks, run 'mergemaster -Fi' once, then run
'mergemaster -U'. (And seriously read the man page.)


hope this helps,

Doug

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