Re: CVSUP and 5.2.1 RELEASE

From: Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock_at_gmx.net>
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 23:59:23 +0200
On Wednesday 14 July 2004 21:39, Eirik Oeverby wrote:
> >  So far, we have never *needed* `mergemaster -p'
> > before buildworld, and I think it is confusing to tell users it
> > 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 flames ..

Correct, but (like the entry in UPDATING says also), running mergemaster -p 
before _install_world is sufficient.

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