From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 29 10:50:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nisser.com (c1870039.telekabel.chello.nl [212.187.0.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 465E215394 for ; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 10:50:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roelof@nisser.com) Received: from nisser.com (roelof [10.0.0.2]) by nisser.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id TAA65562; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 19:53:48 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from roelof@nisser.com) Message-ID: <3819DE31.5DE5344A@nisser.com> Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 19:49:37 +0200 From: Roelof Osinga Organization: eboa - engineering buro Office Automation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: J McKitrick Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CVSUP & buildworld References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG J McKitrick wrote: > > OK, i read the HOW-TO on buildworld. But i still have a question about > mergemaster. I didn't see it mentioned in the 47 page doc i read. Is > this used after installing the new world? > If i understand correctly, i want this order, right? > 1. CVSUP > 2. Build new kernel > 3. build world/install world > 4. mergemaster Yes. Haven't used mergemaster myself yet, but it is supposed to assist in merging the manual stuff, config files, devices and such. Dreary drudge work. But so rewarding. Especially when you get piles of config files with as only change the maintainers initials . Roelof -- Home is where the (@) http://eboa.com/ is. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message