Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 19:12:08 +0200 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> To: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> 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: <20020712191208.558abccb.steve@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <20020712160849.CFF925D03@ptavv.es.net> References: <20020712083256.20eacedc.steve@sohara.org> <20020712160849.CFF925D03@ptavv.es.net>
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On Fri, 12 Jul 2002 09:08:49 -0700
"Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> wrote:
KO> Doing a mergemaster -p here simply is the same as not running it at
KO> all. From the mergemaster man page:
The one and only time I have seen it do anything was after buildworld
and before installworld - I read UPDATING and not the man page :)
KO> -p Pre-buildworld mode. Compares only files known to be essen-
KO> tial to the success of {build|install}world, including
KO> /etc/make.conf.
KO>
KO> So it is clearly intended to be run BEFORE buildworld.
I have to agree that this seems pretty clear - so now I am inclined
to ask if there is any reason why this phase cannot be placed after
buildworld - I can't see anything in mergemaster itself that assumes the
world has not yet been huilt.
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