mergemaster temporary files

[ph0enix]

Every time I run mergemaster -p on my 9.0-RELEASE-p4, it tells me about differences between the following files:

 /etc/group
./etc/group

and

/etc/master.passwd
./etc/master.passwd

If I tell it to delete the temporary files and re-run mergemaster, it sees them again. I have no intention of ever merging those files. Can I purge the temporary ones for good? If so, where do I find them?

Thanks!

J.

 

[wblock@]

mergemaster(8) copies files from /usr/obj to a temporary directory, and merges from there.

See the mergemaster(8) man page, which shows how to set files to be ignored in /etc/mergemaster.rc.

 

[dougb@]

FYI, mergemaster does not copy files from /usr/obj. The process it uses is described in the mergemaster(8) man page.