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Date:      Fri, 10 Sep 1999 08:18:20 -0700
From:      Doug <Doug@gorean.org>
To:        aw1@stade.co.uk
Cc:        FreeBSD-Stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Cvsup to 3.3-RC Failure
Message-ID:  <37D9213C.EAB76B70@gorean.org>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909091248030.9220-100000@binnacle.wantabe.com> <37D7F5DC.783BD1D6@3-cities.com> <19990910055715.B72326@titus.stade.co.uk>

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Adrian Wontroba wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 11:01:00AM -0700, Kent Stewart wrote:
> > The problem was that I thought that Mergemaster did that for me.
> 
> Mergemaster does run MAKEDEV - but in temproot/dev.  I think as a
> side-product of building temproot/dev so that it can compare the new
> MAKEDEV with the old.

	That's correct. By default mm just runs /usr/src/etc/Makefile with a
DESTDIR argument, which creates the devices in $DESTDIR/dev. mm never
touches anything on your running system unless it asks you first. 

Doug


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