Re: Converting FBSD installation to DFBSD?

[Matthew Dillon <dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

:If you'll look at the webpage I sent, one of the last things it says to 
:do is run upgrade_etc
:from /usr/src/etc/.
:This will take care of your etc dir as mergemaster can be very trickey 
:and with this option
:mostly not needed anymore in DragonFly.
:
:-DR
 
    Right.  mergemaster is overly conservative, it asks about all sorts
    of things that are a waste of time.  The upgrade target
    (make upgrade in /usr/src just CD's into /usr/src/etc and runs
    upgrade_etc).  You can look at /usr/src/etc/Makefile (upgrade_etc:)
    to see what it does.

    It basically assumes that you haven't messed around with files that
    sysops do not normally mess around with, like /etc/rc.d/*,
    /etc/defaults/*, and friends, and updates them unconditionally.

    In most cases you never need to run mergemaster.  In fact, it's my
    preference to not run it... system upgrades should be automatic, after
    all.
 
						-Matt