At 9:39 PM +0200 7/14/04, Eirik Oeverby wrote: >Garance A Drosihn wrote: >> >>Someday we have to clean these instructions up, and make sure we >>have a short, consistent set of instructions. And that we are >>saying the same thing everywhere we say anything about updating >>the system. So far, we have never *needed* `mergemaster -p' >>before buildworld, and I think it is confusing to tell users it ^^^^^^^^^^^ - NOTE >>should be done then. > >This is NOT true. Recently mergemaster -p insisted that I add >certain users and groups to my passwd/group files, to support >pf. Without that, I bet installworld would have gone down in ^^^^^^^^^^^^ - NOTE >flames .. correct me if I'm wrong (or don't bother, since this >is a pretty unimportant point anyway :) Hmm. I fail to see your point. What I said was: "We have never needed `mergemaster -p' before *-BUILDWORLD-*". You then emphatically state that I am wrong, and offer an example which talks about INSTALLWORLD. Not BUILDWORLD -- which is what *I* was talking about -- but INSTALLWORLD. I don't want to sound like a screaming lunatic here, but I do think you have missed a very significant detail in what I was saying. Note that I also quoted /usr/src/Makefile, which says: >># 1. `cd /usr/src' (or to the directory containing your source tree). >># 2. `make buildworld' >># 3. `make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE' (default is GENERIC). >># 4. `make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE' (default is GENERIC). >># 5. `reboot' (in single user mode: boot -s from the loader prompt). >># 6. `mergemaster -p' >># 7. `make installworld' >># 8. `mergemaster' >># 9. `reboot' Note that this *does* do mergemaster -p before installworld. Not before buildworld, but definitely before installworld. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad_at_gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad_at_freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih_at_rpi.eduReceived on Wed Jul 14 2004 - 18:13:52 UTC
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