From owner-freebsd-current Thu Dec 31 17:37:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA17351 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 31 Dec 1998 17:37:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from xwin.nmhtech.com (xwin.nmhtech.com [208.138.46.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA17345 for ; Thu, 31 Dec 1998 17:37:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nicole@xwin.nmhtech.com) Received: by xwin.nmhtech.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 20F782EE1A; Thu, 31 Dec 1998 17:36:59 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 17:36:59 -0800 (PST) From: Nicole Harrington To: Randy Bush Subject: RE: dummy's guide to flag day, please? Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id RAA17346 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 31-Dec-98 Randy Bush wisely wrote: > let's make it simple for us dummies. > > i am an a.outer who updates from current every few weeks. i usually > backup > update > make buildworld > go single user > make installworld > mergemaster -cv <--- > make a new kernel > install kernel > reboot > > let's hypothesize that on the 10th or so the messages have died down and i > decide to give the wonderful new elf world a try. what are the steps (after > backing up something awful:-)? > > i know, for example, there will be hidden gotchas in the ldconfig stuff in > rc.conf.local. so please don't be too glib. > > thanks > > randy > Maybe I'm missing something but what does "mergemaster -cv" Mean/stand for? Thanks Nicole nicole@webweaver.net - http://www.webweaver.net/ webmistress@dangermouse.org - http://www.dangermouse.org/ ------------------------------------------------- -- Powered by Coka Cola and FreeBSD -- - Stong enough for a man - But made for a Woman -- -- Microsoft: What bug would you like today? -- - I'm not ADD - I'm just MultiThreaded -- --------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message