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authorGraham Perrin <grahamperrin@gmail.com>2023-08-19 14:52:18 +0000
committerWarner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>2024-02-02 20:35:25 +0000
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freebsd-update(8): Explain conflicts in /etc
Unlike etcupdate(8), freebsd-update only prints the files with conflicts. It doesn't merge. PR: 204549 Reviewed by: imp Pull Request: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/pull/826
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diff --git a/usr.sbin/freebsd-update/freebsd-update.8 b/usr.sbin/freebsd-update/freebsd-update.8
index 0d50ac8822de..1960b0ee95fe 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/freebsd-update/freebsd-update.8
+++ b/usr.sbin/freebsd-update/freebsd-update.8
@@ -264,3 +264,12 @@ required.
.Xr nextboot 8
.Sh AUTHORS
.An Colin Percival Aq Mt cperciva@FreeBSD.org
+.Sh BUGS
+In patch level situations – for example, 13.2-RELEASE-p1 up to 13.2-RELEASE-p2: if any previous modification to a file in
+.Pa /etc/
+will conflict with an available update, then
+.Nm
+will make no attempt to merge.
+Instead:
+.Nm
+will print a list of affected locally-modified files.