From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jul 11 23:33:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F2E737B400 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 23:33:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp3.wanadoo.nl (smtp3.wanadoo.nl [194.134.35.186]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2A7E43E64 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 23:33:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from steve@sohara.org) Received: from ams-gw.sohara.org (i1192.vwr.wanadoo.nl [194.134.212.173]) by smtp3.wanadoo.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 938181B515; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 08:33:11 +0200 (MEST) Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 08:32:56 +0200 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith To: "Kevin Oberman" Cc: paulo@nlink.com.br, never@nevermind.kiev.ua, gavin@ury.york.ac.uk, boland@alexander.diva.nl, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.6-RELEASE -> 4.5-RELENG Message-Id: <20020712083256.20eacedc.steve@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <20020710175614.7F3535D03@ptavv.es.net> References: <20020619150606.J97503-100000@mirage.nlink.com.br> <20020710175614.7F3535D03@ptavv.es.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.8 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.6) X-Face: %]+HVL}K`P8>+8ZcY-WGHP6j@&mxMo9JH6_WdgIgUGH)JX/usO0%jy7T~IVgqjumD^OBqX,Kv^-GM6mlw(fI^$"QRKyZ$?xx/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 10 Jul 2002 10:56:14 -0700 "Kevin Oberman" wrote: KO> While there are a few niggles, the proper sequence is: KO> mergemaster -p (This is NEW!) Isn't this better after the buildworld and kernel runs on the basis that if they fail you are not going to complete an install and so may not want the mergemaster -p changes - I've never seen anything in mergemaster -p that could be considered harmful but I like the easy back out after the smoke test reboot (OK I know it's not just a smoke test). KO> make buildworld KO> make kernel KERNCONF=your_kernel_conf_name KO> REBOOT into single-user mode! (This does not mean drop to single user.) KO> fsck -p KO> mount -a -t ufs Can it safely go here (this is where I usually do it). -- C:>WIN | Directable Mirrors The computer obeys and wins. |A Better Way To Focus The Sun You lose and Bill collects. | licenses available - see: | http://www.sohara.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message