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From: Ryan Shannon <rshannon@wcug.wwu.edu>
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Subject: make world
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Hello.

I just updated my source using CVSup and did a make world, following the instructions in the handbook.  All seemed to go well until I got to the section in the handbook that says "Update /etc".  I was confused because it specifically says only /etc in the title, but says that after doing a

# make DESTDIR=/var/tmp/root distrib-dirs distribution

"/var/tmp/root now contains all the files that should be placed in appropriate locations under /"

So I go through all the files in /var/tmp/root/etc and compare them to the files in /etc with diff, copying files from /etc to /var/tmp/root/etc when the differences are only my customizations.

I then try to cp /var/tmp/root / and I get a gazillion errors talking about can't replace directories with files - all having to do with /usr/share/whatever.  I figured that most of that stuff is non-essential so I just ignored it and finished the rest of the directions in the chapter.  Why does the chapter break off into a sub-indented section referring to future updates and never finishes saying what to do?  It just leaves you there with two directories, /etc and /var/tmp/root/etc, and no instruction on how to merge them.

After rebooting, however, I could only log in as root - with no password.  I tried using /stand/sysinstall to reset the root password, and it said it did, but it didn't.  Only after using adduser did it replace a bunch of user config related files in /etc and begin to work normally.

Did I screw up when I did a cp /var/tmp/root /?  I intended only to add nonexisting files and replace existing files that differed, but it could have replaced the whole directory, thereby removing files that existed previously only in /etc and not in /var/tmp/root/etc.  

That would be bad.

I did back up my old /etc directory, just in case.

Can anybody enlighten me, please?

Thanks,

Ryan Shannon
rshannon@wcug.wwu.edu


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