On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 12:24:00AM -0400, Matt Garcia wrote: > Hi, > > I finished doing an upgrade for freebsd from > 4.5-stable to 4.7RC. I had a question regarding the > mergemaster. After everything is done when running > the mergemaster everything on the LEFT side is new and > everything on the right side is old or is it vice > versa ? i forgot which is which.
Heh, I used to have to go to the man page, or a book I had every time. I finally figured out a mneumonic, but it's so complex, I'm not going to mention it here, it has to do with the right brain being the dreamer and looking ahead. :) (Well, I sort of mentioned it, but...) Left is old, right is new--easier to determine when you're looking at things like /etc/passwd---because only the left side will have the users you've added. > -- Scott PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 D575 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Xander: Cavalry's here! Cavalry's a scared guy with a club, but it's here!
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