From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 13 10:38:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from brain-stream.com (brain-stream.com [209.95.107.206]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A58637B405 for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 10:38:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from laptop.pobox.com (h00609708e398.ne.mediaone.net [24.128.187.79]) by brain-stream.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA21720; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 10:38:32 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20020213133935.01b7bc00@pop.earthlink.net> X-Sender: bkdelong@pop.earthlink.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 13:41:37 -0500 To: jacks@sage-american.com From: "B.K. DeLong" Subject: Re: Using MergeMaster/ Release-to-Stable Process? Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20020213115802.0196bec8@mail.sage-american.com> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20020213124225.01bd2ec0@pop.earthlink.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 11:58 AM 02/13/2002 -0600, you wrote: >Steps 4 & 5 should be done before step 3 >...you should usually choose "i" to install and perhaps leave the files >that contain personal settings for later (like hosts, passwd, group, >etc...) During the process you are looking at the "diff" (difference) >between your old files and the new ones so you can see what would change. >You should always copy /etc to /etc.old before mergemaster just in case you >need to get the old file back, or use some of the changed info.... Ah, ok. Thanks. Question: do I need to use the KERNCONF flag with buildworld and installworld? or is that just a kernel thing? And does "make clean" cleanup all the files I d/l'd through CVSUP and created through the various "make" commands? Thanks, yet again. -- B.K. DeLong bkdelong@pobox.com 617.877.3271 http://www.brain-stream.com Play. http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org Potter. http://www.attrition.org Security. http://www.artemisiabotanicals.com Herb. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message