Projects : sysutils/etcmerge

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Following, are FreeBSD ports, or other *BSD related projects, hosted, or worked on at BSDforge in the sysutils category.

etcmerge

Provides automatic 3-way merge of /etc updates.

etcmerge is a tool for keeping /etc up to date when updating, or for management after installworld (instead of mergemaster). The primary difference from mergamaster, is that etcmerge requires much less manual work than mergamaster, due to the use of a three way merge.

Please see the etcmerge(8) man page, for greater details, and usage.

Installation

Using the FreeBSD ports tree method:
cd /usr/ports/sysutils/etcmerge make install clean
Using the FreeBSD pkg(8) method:
pkg install sysutils/etcmerge