Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 16:13:46 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Eirik Oeverby <ltning@anduin.net> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CVSUP and 5.2.1 RELEASE Message-ID: <p06110420bd1b3d2cd289@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <40F58BE7.9050601@anduin.net> References: <25787.1089753241@critter.freebsd.dk> <40F4562D.2020101@linuxpowered.com> <20040714090640.1fe19f2b.steve@sohara.org> <200407141103.10881.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> <20040714113019.7be536d5.steve@sohara.org> <p0611041cbd1b14c0592a@[128.113.24.47]> <40F58BE7.9050601@anduin.net>
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At 9:39 PM +0200 7/14/04, Eirik Oeverby wrote:
>Garance A Drosihn wrote:
>>
>>Someday we have to clean these instructions up, and make sure we
>>have a short, consistent set of instructions. And that we are
>>saying the same thing everywhere we say anything about updating
>>the system. So far, we have never *needed* `mergemaster -p'
>>before buildworld, and I think it is confusing to tell users it
^^^^^^^^^^^ - NOTE
>>should be done then.
>
>This is NOT true. Recently mergemaster -p insisted that I add
>certain users and groups to my passwd/group files, to support
>pf. Without that, I bet installworld would have gone down in
^^^^^^^^^^^^ - NOTE
>flames .. correct me if I'm wrong (or don't bother, since this
>is a pretty unimportant point anyway :)
Hmm. I fail to see your point. What I said was:
"We have never needed `mergemaster -p' before *-BUILDWORLD-*".
You then emphatically state that I am wrong, and offer an
example which talks about INSTALLWORLD. Not BUILDWORLD --
which is what *I* was talking about -- but INSTALLWORLD.
I don't want to sound like a screaming lunatic here, but I do
think you have missed a very significant detail in what I was
saying. Note that I also quoted /usr/src/Makefile, which says:
>># 1. `cd /usr/src' (or to the directory containing your source tree).
>># 2. `make buildworld'
>># 3. `make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE' (default is GENERIC).
>># 4. `make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE' (default is GENERIC).
>># 5. `reboot' (in single user mode: boot -s from the loader prompt).
>># 6. `mergemaster -p'
>># 7. `make installworld'
>># 8. `mergemaster'
>># 9. `reboot'
Note that this *does* do mergemaster -p before installworld. Not
before buildworld, but definitely before installworld.
--
Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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