From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jun 5 8:58:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from wall.polstra.com (wall-gw.polstra.com [206.213.73.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7664A37B401 for ; Wed, 5 Jun 2002 08:58:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g55Fwdp13464; Wed, 5 Jun 2002 08:58:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@wall.polstra.com) Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.11.6/8.11.0) id g55Fwcn53072; Wed, 5 Jun 2002 08:58:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp) Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 08:58:38 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200206051558.g55Fwcn53072@vashon.polstra.com> To: current@freebsd.org From: John Polstra Cc: bde@zeta.org.au Subject: Re: mergemaster broken? In-Reply-To: <20020605120647.H5878-100000@gamplex.bde.org> References: <20020605120647.H5878-100000@gamplex.bde.org> Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <20020605120647.H5878-100000@gamplex.bde.org>, Bruce Evans wrote: > On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, walt wrote: > > > It correctly identifies files to be updated, asks me what > > I want to do, as usual, and when I hit 'i' for install it > > proceeds without error messages but then it tells me at > > the end that all the files I told it to install remain > > for me to merge by hand. > > Read the messages more closely and you should see one about > perl not being installed. The trouble is, those messages vanish in about 1 millisecond when the pager fires up and displays the next set of diffs. The messages are effectively invisible on my system, and I only found them by running mergemaster under "script". Of course, Bruce, I have no doubt that you can see them on your Teletype Model 37. ;-) If mergemaster depends on perl and perl is not installed, it should be a fatal error which terminates mergemaster immediately. It doesn't make any sense to proceed if the merged files cannot be installed. John -- John Polstra John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Chögyam Trungpa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message