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> The mergemaster(8) utility has been deprecated and will be removed in FreeBSD 14.0

This is a bit of a bummer, though.

I did just try to use etcupdate for the 13.2-RELEASE upgrade and it hung forever trying to grep for something in /etc/default/devfs.rules, so I had to fall back on mergemaster again...

Oh well, maybe a clean install when 14 is out and it'll behave better.

Congrats on the release!

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> I did just try to use etcupdate for the 13.2-RELEASE upgrade and it hung forever trying to grep for something in /etc/default/devfs.rules

Would you be willing to submit a bug for the etcupdate issue? Or, just reply here with as much detail as you can recall about how you ran it?

Sure; i will flip back to old be again tonight if i have some time and give it another go.

Will file a bug if I can reproduce it.

14.0 is pencilled in for July:

* https://www.freebsd.org/releases/14.0R/schedule/

One can continue using 13.x until 2026:

* https://www.freebsd.org/security/#sup

I 100% agree that the move to etcupdate should have been documented better. I also ended up in situations when I had to manually fix systems after upgrading.

Haven't had issues with etcupdate(8) on 14-CURRENT recently. Earlier each time I'd get "Conflicts remain from previous update, aborting" or some warning about inability to remove non-empty directory followed by "Old directories removed".

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