Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 21:18:58 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@FreeBSD.ORG> To: "B.K. DeLong" <bkdelong@pobox.com> Cc: jacks@sage-american.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Using MergeMaster/ Release-to-Stable Process? Message-ID: <20020213211858.C33833@blossom.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020213133935.01b7bc00@pop.earthlink.net>; from bkdelong@pobox.com on Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 01:41:37PM -0500 References: <5.1.0.14.2.20020213124225.01bd2ec0@pop.earthlink.net> <3.0.5.32.20020213115802.0196bec8@mail.sage-american.com> <5.1.0.14.2.20020213133935.01b7bc00@pop.earthlink.net>
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On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 01:41:37PM -0500, B.K. DeLong wrote:
> 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?
Don't bother cleaning. If you want to get rid of the object tree,
just do,
# rm -rf /usr/obj/usr
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