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Date:      Wed, 4 Sep 2002 11:27:52 +0200
From:      "Mario Goebbels" <mariog@tomservo.cc>
To:        <current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: installworld broken
Message-ID:  <000b01c253f5$585f51d0$2000000a@TSO>
References:  <20020902.114349.111929720.imp@bsdimp.com> <20020902.125243.39997233.imp@bsdimp.com> <20020902194432.GA58032@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20020903075055.GF45029@starjuice.net> <20020903143013.GA63331@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>

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> > > > : I've had to add ex, touch and gencat to the installworld target.
And
> > > > : I've still not manged to complete a installworld.
> > > > :
> > > > : anybody else see this?
> > > >
> > >
> > > Strange, I just did a "make buildworld ... mergermaster"
> > > sequence and I did not need the three utilities you mention.
> >
> > Why is that strange?  You're talking about everything up to but not
> > including installworld.  Warner's talking about installworld. :-)
> >
>
> Sigh.  I said '"make buildworld ... mergemaster" sequence'.
> I assume people running -current would understand the
> use of "..." and the word "sequence" to mean
>
> make buildworld
> make buildkernel
> make installkernel
> mergemaster -p
> reboot
> make installworld
> mergemaster


Hmmmm. Is mergemaster really necessary? I mean when upgrading from a fresh
4.6 install? I usually just copied the password files and rc.conf,
copied -CURRENTs etc files into /etc and copied the passwd files back. Seems
to work fine, especially because I never touch the RC scripts on my running
BSD systems.

-mg


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