Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 08:18:20 -0700 From: Doug <Doug@gorean.org> To: aw1@stade.co.uk Cc: FreeBSD-Stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Cvsup to 3.3-RC Failure Message-ID: <37D9213C.EAB76B70@gorean.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909091248030.9220-100000@binnacle.wantabe.com> <37D7F5DC.783BD1D6@3-cities.com> <19990910055715.B72326@titus.stade.co.uk>
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Adrian Wontroba wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 11:01:00AM -0700, Kent Stewart wrote: > > The problem was that I thought that Mergemaster did that for me. > > Mergemaster does run MAKEDEV - but in temproot/dev. I think as a > side-product of building temproot/dev so that it can compare the new > MAKEDEV with the old. That's correct. By default mm just runs /usr/src/etc/Makefile with a DESTDIR argument, which creates the devices in $DESTDIR/dev. mm never touches anything on your running system unless it asks you first. Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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