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authorAntoine Jacoutot <ajacoutot@cvs.openbsd.org>2008-06-09 23:11:02 +0000
committerAntoine Jacoutot <ajacoutot@cvs.openbsd.org>2008-06-09 23:11:02 +0000
commit83662fb96f65566b6b294030fd71876b664cfd38 (patch)
tree92dda83fa2af3c23cec74780cc4ff9ab439a0042
parented38349a6154d283c7f4d8666c2accc69d917436 (diff)
- encourage people to use the same source as was used to upgrade system
binaries so that some etc files don't get forgotten in the process discussed with kurt@ tweaks and ok jmc@
-rw-r--r--usr.sbin/sysmerge/sysmerge.810
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/sysmerge/sysmerge.8 b/usr.sbin/sysmerge/sysmerge.8
index 13a3867ca28..580f2f9727a 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/sysmerge/sysmerge.8
+++ b/usr.sbin/sysmerge/sysmerge.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: sysmerge.8,v 1.5 2008/06/01 15:07:00 ajacoutot Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: sysmerge.8,v 1.6 2008/06/09 23:11:01 ajacoutot Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2008 Antoine Jacoutot <ajacoutot@openbsd.org>
.\"
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
.\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF
.\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: June 1 2008 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: June 9 2008 $
.Dt SYSMERGE 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -58,6 +58,12 @@ release or snapshot file.
The default, if no source is specified on the command line,
is to use
.Pa /usr/src .
+To make sure configuration files are in sync with the actual binaries,
+use the same source as was used to upgrade the system:
+.Pa /usr/src
+when upgrading from source and
+.Pa etcXX.tgz
+when upgrading from binary sets.
All work is done under
.Pa ${TMPDIR}/sysmerge.XXXXX
(known as the