Re: Accidentally aborted upgrade via freebsd-update - how to

On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 04:52:03PM -0800, Doug Barton thus spake:
>On 12/27/2010 16:40, Damien Fleuriot wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 12/27/10 11:58 PM, Clifton Royston wrote:
>>>
>>>    OK, and oh well...  I wish there were some way to automate the diffing
>>> out of the $FreeBSD lines.  I suppose those might be the artifact of
>>> some previous upgrade, so that the file version present is not the one
>>> expected for FreeBSD 6.1.
>>>
>>>    -- Clifton
>>>
>>
>>
>> Wait, do you mean like, mergemaster -F ?
>>
>> Excerpt from the manual:
>>       -F          If the files differ only by VCS Id ($FreeBSD) install
>> the new file.
>>
>>
>> I've discovered this rather recently, it's a *lifesaver*
>>
>> This comes from fbsd7's version though, I can not say for the one you're
>> still running on fbsd6
>
>You always want to run mergemaster from the version you are upgrading
>_to_. It doesn't happen often (by design) but occasionally mergemaster
>has to grow "special knowledge" of specific files/directories/etc. in a
>new FreeBSD version.

As far as I can tell, freebsd-update doesn't use mergemaster.

/usr/src/usr.sbin/freebsd-update/freebsd-update.sh

Source installation does, however I don't believe a binary upgrade does.

-jgh
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