Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 13:22:34 -0700 From: Doug Barton <DougB@DougBarton.net> To: Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@neomedia.it> Cc: Peter <peter@sysadmin-inc.com>, Forrest Aldrich <forrie@forrie.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.3-STABLE mergemaster problems Message-ID: <3B2D118A.2940737F@DougBarton.net> References: <992384390.3b269586a92c7@webmail.neomedia.it>
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Salvo Bartolotta wrote:
>
> > After running mergemaster -ai on a newly updated system, i went back to run
> > mergemaster -rv
> > however it is unable to install files i tell it to. Only saying
> > *** Problem installing ./dev/MAKEDEV, it will remain to merge by hand
> > It gives this error on every file.
> > Is there something wrong with mergemaster in 4.3?
>
> I am running (right now) a "4.3-STABLE FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE #0: Sun Jun 10
> 17:50:16 CEST" system.
>
> I saw those errors while running a simple mergemaster -v -d. So I went
> diff'ing here and there to see what had just happened. AFAICT, nothing
> serious. The files had been correctly updated (despite the messages stating
> exactly the contrary).
>
> You may wish to just run mergemaster once again **after** updating your
> configuration files. N.B. in the first run, you will have to ignore the
> complaints about the impossibility of installing the various relevant files.
>
> It seems to be a harmless bug. I simply didn't find time to complain a couple
> of days ago, and I almost forgot all about it :-)
It's a known bug that I'm going to work on today. If y'all are running
-stable you should subscribe to and read the freebsd-stable mailing list.
This has been discussed several times there now.
Doug
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