From owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org Fri Jan 1 22:07:06 2021 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FCBA4D5AA8 for ; Fri, 1 Jan 2021 22:07:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from herbert@gojira.at) Received: from mail.bsd4all.net (mail.bsd4all.net [IPv6:2a01:4f8:13b:240c::25]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256 client-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) client-digest SHA256) (Client CN "mail.bsd4all.net", Issuer "R3" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4D6zdj2p0Bz3vfZ for ; Fri, 1 Jan 2021 22:07:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from herbert@gojira.at) Date: Fri, 01 Jan 2021 23:06:56 +0100 Message-ID: <87k0swtipr.wl-herbert@gojira.at> From: "Herbert J. Skuhra" To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mergemaster option -m (was: etcupdate failed to build new tree) In-Reply-To: References: <87lfdctq83.wl-herbert@gojira.at> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.15.9 (Almost Unreal) Emacs/28.0 Mule/6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI-EPG 1.14.7 - "Harue") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-2022-JP X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4D6zdj2p0Bz3vfZ X-Spamd-Bar: -- X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-2.38 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-1.000]; R_DKIM_ALLOW(-0.20)[gojira.at:s=mail202005]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+ip6:2a01:4f8:13b:240c::25]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; TO_DN_NONE(0.00)[]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[gojira.at]; RCPT_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; SPAMHAUS_ZRD(0.00)[2a01:4f8:13b:240c::25:from:127.0.2.255]; DKIM_TRACE(0.00)[gojira.at:+]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-0.88)[-0.875]; MID_CONTAINS_FROM(1.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000]; RCVD_COUNT_ZERO(0.00)[0]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; RBL_DBL_DONT_QUERY_IPS(0.00)[2a01:4f8:13b:240c::25:from]; ASN(0.00)[asn:24940, ipnet:2a01:4f8::/29, country:DE]; MAILMAN_DEST(0.00)[freebsd-current] X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.34 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 Jan 2021 22:07:06 -0000 On Fri, 01 Jan 2021 21:29:45 +0100, Graham Perrin wrote: > > On 01/01/2021 19:24, Herbert J. Skuhra wrote: > > > On Fri, 01 Jan 2021 20:01:16 +0100, Graham Perrin wrote: > > > >> … > >> > >> I did try `mergemaster -p` and somehow (!) ended up with an empty > >> `/etc/group` file. Dug myself out of that hole, I'll prefer to > >> continue using etcupdate. > > -m /path/to/sources > > Specify the path to the directory where you want to do the > > make(1). > > > Thank you, what path would you suggest? > > (Given the previous weirdness, I want to make no guesses here.) 1. Your SOURCEDIR is /usr/src/freebsd-current and not /usr/src. Unlike etcupdate mergemaster checks for Makefile1.inc in the working directory and asks to set SOURCEDIR accordingly: *** /usr/src was not found. Found Makefile.inc1 in the current directory. Would you like to set SOURCEDIR to /mnt2/src? [no and exit] Did you see this prompt? 2. Do you have (old) files (e.g. Makefile.inc1) or directories (e.g. etc) in /usr/src? Is this problem reproducible? Does it work if use -m switch, e.g: 'mergemaster -m .' or 'mergemaster -m /usr/src/freebsd-current'? -- Herbert