Christian Weisgerber wrote on Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 02:46:51PM +0000:

> The questions is, what *do* people use for updating /etc?

Long ago (2.x): diff, mv, and cp.
For a few years: mergemaster.
For 3.6 -> 3.7 -> 3.8: mergeslave.

I do confirm Han's statement that using mergeslave instead of
mergemaster saves me time.

Trying it out probably won't be a waste of time.
Cutting mergeslave out of 
http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/software/OpenBSD-binary-upgrade/OpenBSD-binary-upgrade
is nearly trivial.

-- 
Ingo Schwarze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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