From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jul 12 10:12:19 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 7AF2437B400 for ; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 10:12:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp3.wanadoo.nl (smtp3.wanadoo.nl [194.134.35.186]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09B0843E31 for ; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 10:12:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from steve@sohara.org) Received: from ams-gw.sohara.org (p3573.vwr.wanadoo.nl [212.129.225.253]) by smtp3.wanadoo.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 4405D1B4EE; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 19:12:12 +0200 (MEST) Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 19:12:08 +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: <20020712191208.558abccb.steve@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <20020712160849.CFF925D03@ptavv.es.net> References: <20020712083256.20eacedc.steve@sohara.org> <20020712160849.CFF925D03@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 Fri, 12 Jul 2002 09:08:49 -0700 "Kevin Oberman" 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. -- 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