Date: Sun, 26 Dec 1999 07:38:15 GMT From: Joseph Wright <rjoseph@nwlink.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: make world /etc update Message-ID: <19991226.7381500@mammalia.sea> In-Reply-To: <87iu1msn5j.fsf@main.wgaf.net> References: <19991224.21204000@mammalia.sea> <87ln6k6n1x.fsf@main.wgaf.net> <19991225.21194000@mammalia.sea> <87iu1msn5j.fsf@main.wgaf.net>
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> Hi, Joseph: > While reading the thread that resulted from your posting I learned > about a utility called "mergemaster(8)", which, apparently, is > designed for specifically updating /etc folder and friends. > Although I haven't tried using it, I did have a quick look at its man > page, and it looks very promissing. I'm sure going to use it the next > time I upgrade my system. You might want to take a look at it! Thanks, I read the man page on it and I will try it too. But now I've got seemingly worse problems. I decided to update the source again and 'make world' again, so I could start the whole project over from scratch. Before dropping into single user mode to rebuild the system, I did 'rm -rf /usr/obj/'. This is supposed to make the 'make world' speed up somewhat. Funny thing was, it won't allow me to remove some of the directories under /usr/obj/. Yes, I was running as root. So I went down into the directory and find a strange thing: /usr/obj/usr/src/games/dm/FreeBSD But I can't cd to this directory because it doesn't exist! I can't remove it either! I thought, oh well, I'll try 'make world' anyway. It stops with Error code 1, because of that damn phantom directory. Is my filesystem corrupted or something? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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