From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Sep 10 8:22:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dt011n65.san.rr.com (dt014nb6.san.rr.com [24.30.129.182]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CDC415790 for ; Fri, 10 Sep 1999 08:22:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (master [10.0.0.2]) by dt011n65.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA62253; Fri, 10 Sep 1999 08:18:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Message-ID: <37D9213C.EAB76B70@gorean.org> Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 08:18:20 -0700 From: Doug Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT-0904 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: aw1@stade.co.uk Cc: FreeBSD-Stable Subject: Re: Cvsup to 3.3-RC Failure References: <37D7F5DC.783BD1D6@3-cities.com> <19990910055715.B72326@titus.stade.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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