From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 1 06:50:18 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A36D816A4CE for ; Mon, 1 Mar 2004 06:50:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail1.panix.com (mail1.panix.com [166.84.1.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 391A943D39 for ; Mon, 1 Mar 2004 06:50:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from stanb@panix.com) Received: from panix.com (brillig.panix.com [166.84.1.76]) by mail1.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1865E494C2 for ; Mon, 1 Mar 2004 09:49:48 -0500 (EST) Received: from teddy.fas.com (pcp01010374pcs.mplsnt01.sc.comcast.net [68.58.176.69]) by panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC9C12AA48 for ; Mon, 1 Mar 2004 09:49:15 -0500 (EST) Received: from stan by teddy.fas.com with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1AxojI-0000SK-00 for ; Mon, 01 Mar 2004 09:49:12 -0500 Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 09:49:12 -0500 From: stan To: Free BSD Questions list Message-ID: <20040301144912.GA1660@teddy.fas.com> Mail-Followup-To: Free BSD Questions list Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline X-Editor: gVim X-Operating-System: Debian GNU/Linux X-Kernel-Version: 2.4.23 X-Uptime: 09:43:34 up 22:19, 2 users, load average: 0.29, 0.70, 0.67 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: Stan Brown Subject: Small problem upgrading older machine X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 14:50:18 -0000 I'm upgrading a bunch of older machines *some as far back as 4.2). First let me say a bing THANKS YOU for all the hard work the release engineering team does to make this work as well as it does. Now, let me point out a small problem. When I got to the "make installworld" step, I was politely informed that I needed a snsmp user. Looking at UPDATING, I saw that I could install the newer mergemaster by hand, and use it to add this user. I did that. Unfortunately the installworld, then errored when it got to installing mergemaster, as there was then on mergemaster.sh file in the directory, and no rule to build it. I copied the file back from the final location, back to mergemaster.sh in the source tree, and I'm re-running make installworld, which should go OK now. Would it be possible to fix the Makefile to prevent this problem? -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin