Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2012 15:20:56 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, Peter Wemm <peter@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r243798 - head Message-ID: <CAGH67wQmiJcA9uWN75AP028%2Bd-KzggJ=WRXu4%2BCZZz7mpKH=kw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAGH67wRcShC9S5T8pnG8yL04xKWCVH8C0S9RfYBvgQyv5nsBvw@mail.gmail.com> References: <201212022132.qB2LWkiX066691@svn.freebsd.org> <CAGH67wTZ5eYFrWtGW8rDpXZzBDQ7jmpRzcKPxsjhd=PDvJUPVQ@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1212022211440.18806@fledge.watson.org> <CAGH67wRcShC9S5T8pnG8yL04xKWCVH8C0S9RfYBvgQyv5nsBvw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 2:16 PM, Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> ...
>
>> I've also added an UPDATING entry.
>>
>> Note that running "mergemaster -p" is a documented (and necessary) part of
>> the world upgrade process. Normally I wouldn't add an UPDATING entry, and
>> in general we haven't done it for new users in the past, but it seems an
>> inordinate number of people are running into this due to not using
>> "mergemaster -p" (and on the whole not removing their feet), so a reminder
>> was necessary.
>
> Unfortunately I also propogated this fallacy (not needing mergemaster
> -p) as well.
>
> I'm rerunning a build with nanobsd on my 9/stable workstation, as I
> ran into problems in the last go-around with the user/group being
> missing, but we'll see if I run into it again (seems like we should
> have a slightly more intelligent mechanism for dealing with this issue
> in the build system itself instead of mergemaster).
e-yup... same error. I'll see if I can hack this because it's a
bit annoying.
Thanks,
-Garrett
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