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Re: "Just finished updating FreeBSD to patch the SA's revealed..."
heh i remember using etc-update on gentoo, now i think it is replaced by dispatch-conf. and yes, i believe it doesn't ask you if nothing was changed.
Jul 30 · 5 months ago
Just finished updating FreeBSD to patch the SA's revealed yesterday. I went ahead and did a source based update because it's been a long time and I wanted to see how it went. Surprisingly well is how it went. I had never used the `etcupdate` command before, having always used `mergemaster` in the past,and it was a huge improvement. Mergemaster was the most time consuming part of the entire process in years past, requiring the user to individually decide what to do with every file in /etc. The `...