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FreeBSD 10.0 and newer include etcupdate (and it has been available as port even longer) which improves a lot upon mergemaster through the use of 3way instead o
by crest 6y ago
FreeBSD 10.0 and newer include etcupdate (and it has been available as port even longer) which improves a lot upon mergemaster through the use of 3way instead of 2way merges. Recent releases also added ways to keep most of your config in your own files (often included from /usr/local/etc) to avoid merge conflicts. Simple systems can often upgrade without any merge conflicts at all.
- butterisgood 6y agoetcupdate is great! Wish it was the documented way to do that step in the manual.
- 0mp 6y agoI'm also using etcupdate. It's also the default for beinstall(8), a very nice tool to install updates into a separate boot environment.