Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 11:03:10 +0200 Michael Nottebrock > <michaelnottebrock_at_gmx.net> wrote: > > >> mergemaster -p needs to happen before installworld, earlier than >> that is not required. > > > From man mergemaster: > > -p Pre-buildworld mode. Compares only files known to be > essen- tial to the success of {build|install}world, including > /etc/make.conf. > > I rest my case. > Shouldn't the handbook be fixed then? The handbook says mergemaster -p should be preformed AFTER the reboot... http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html To update your system, you should use the following procedure: # make buildworld # make buildkernel # make installkernel # reboot You should boot in single user mode (using boot -s from loader prompt for example). Then run: # mergemaster -p # make installworld # mergemaster # reboot > >>> A mount -a or thereabouts is usually needed here. >> >> No, you don't need to try and mount your nfs, linux, windows and >> smb filesystems. :) > > > Hence the "or thereabouts" - you may well need the NFS filesystem if > /usr/src is on NFS. >Received on Sat Jul 17 2004 - 23:17:59 UTC
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