Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2012 11:55:23 +0200 From: Vrachnis Ilias-Dimitrios <vrachil@gmail.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd-update problems Message-ID: <4F08168B.7070803@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4F07F0BC.7060309@ish.com.au> References: <4F07F0BC.7060309@ish.com.au>
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On 01/07/2012 09:14, Aristedes Maniatis wrote: > [...] > > 2. I didn't touch mergemaster.mtree manually. Well, I don't think I did. > But even if I had, could the tool give me some clue as to how to proceed > from here? Do I now have to go back to csup to update my system and > never be able to use freebsd-update again? Is there a trick to fool > freebsd-update into overwriting this file which I don't think I touched? > > It would be nice if freebsd-update could be more helpful about what the > user should do next when it finds an error. > > > > Thanks > Ari > uname only reports the kernel info. I don't remember if the p6-8 updates touched anything in the kernel, so the kernel probably wasn't rebuilt. You can check in the file /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh, there is a variable named BRANCH. That should tell you which was your last update. Regards, -vid
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