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From: Mike Clarke <jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk>
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Cc: Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com>
Subject: Re: Clarification Of In Place Upgrade Process
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On Saturday 06 February 2010, Tim Daneliuk wrote:

> When migrating from 6.x to 7.x and to do system refreshes within a
> given release branch, I did/do this:
>
> =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0- Get sources
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 - mergemaster -i
> =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0- make buildworld buildkernel
> =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0- go single user
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 - make installworld installkernel
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 - reboot

Shouldn't mergemaster be run later in the sequence, like this:

	- make buildworld buildkernel
	- make installkernel
	- Reboot into single user mode
	- mergemaster -p
	- make installworld
	- mergemaster (or mergemaster -Ui)
	- Reboot

=2D-=20
Mike Clarke