From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 13 21:19: 2 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (rwcrmhc53.attbi.com [204.127.198.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B829437B400 for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 21:19:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from blossom.cjclark.org ([12.234.91.48]) by rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020214051859.TGNM2951.rwcrmhc53.attbi.com@blossom.cjclark.org>; Thu, 14 Feb 2002 05:18:59 +0000 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1E5IwN34277; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 21:18:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 21:18:58 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: "B.K. DeLong" Cc: jacks@sage-american.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Using MergeMaster/ Release-to-Stable Process? Message-ID: <20020213211858.C33833@blossom.cjclark.org> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i 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 X-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ 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 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 -- Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message