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Subject: Re: RELENG_7 - has mergemaster changed logic since 7.2-RELEASE?
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Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> To be clear, I follow this procedure:
> 1. make buildworld
> 2. make kernel
> 3. shutdown now
> 4. mergemaster -p
> 5. make installworld
> 6. mergemaster -iU
> 7. fastboot

By any chance is any of this happening in a jail? Or by any chance is
/etc a symlink? A user sent me a very interesting patch related to the
use of -U in a jail that might be relevant here.


Doug