From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jun 29 16:19:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from melete.ch.intel.com (melete.ch.intel.com [143.182.246.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF61037B5D6 for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 16:19:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com) Received: from sedona.intel.com (sedona.ch.intel.com [143.182.218.21]) by melete.ch.intel.com (8.9.1a+p1/8.9.1/d: relay.m4,v 1.30 2000/06/08 18:25:35 dmccart Exp $) with ESMTP id XAA00666; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 23:19:34 GMT Received: from hip186.ch.intel.com (hip186.ch.intel.com [143.182.225.68]) by sedona.intel.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1/d: sendmail.cf,v 1.10 2000/02/10 21:38:16 steved Exp $) with ESMTP id QAA20746; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 16:19:17 -0700 (MST) X-Envelope-From: jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com Received: (from jreynold@localhost) by hip186.ch.intel.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1/d: client.m4,v 1.3 1998/09/29 16:36:11 sedayao Exp sedayao $) id TAA12649; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 19:19:17 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: hip186.ch.intel.com: jreynold set sender to jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com using -f From: John Reynolds~ MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14683.55669.468165.208753@hip186.ch.intel.com> Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 16:19:17 -0700 (MST) To: Nader Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mergemaster In-Reply-To: <395BCEB3.EDB39F26@grove.iup.edu> References: <395BCEB3.EDB39F26@grove.iup.edu> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under Emacs 20.3.11 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [ On Thursday, June 29, Nader wrote: ] > Hi guys, > I installed a fresh FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE and cvsup to FReeBSD 4.0-STABLE > like 2 months ago. > Do I really need to update my /etc? i mean it's been online for 2 months > with no problem. > updating /etc to reflect the date on which you cvsup'ed and built/installed -STABLE is generally a requirement(**). Either by hand or mergemaster. I recommend mergemaster. My $0.02. -Jr ** you could NOT do it, but if you run into problems and don't follow the "normal procedures" you may be SOL for help on this and other groups. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= | John Reynolds WCCG, CCE, Higher Levels of Abstraction | | Intel Corporation MS: CH6-210 Phone: 480-554-9092 pgr: 602-868-6512 | | jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com http://www-aec.ch.intel.com/~jreynold/ | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message