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From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: bin/73651: Mergemaster on 4x -> 5.x pre-buildworld
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Synopsis: Mergemaster on 4x -> 5.x pre-buildworld

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State-Changed-By: dougb
State-Changed-When: Wed Oct 12 00:33:18 GMT 2005
State-Changed-Why: 

What you've described is accurate. There are (at least) two
possible solutions. First, use and/or install the mergemaster
from 5.x. Second, instead of trying to do a source upgrade
over major versions, back up your important data, and
reinstall from scratch. This is especially useful in the
4->5  upgrade since without a newfs on the filesystems
you miss out on the benefits of UFS2. 

hope this helps,

Doug


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Responsible-Changed-When: Wed Oct 12 00:33:18 GMT 2005
Responsible-Changed-Why: 

I maintain mergemaster

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=73651