From owner-freebsd-current Wed Sep 4 5:13:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BC0237B400 for ; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 05:13:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bunrab.catwhisker.org (adsl-63-193-123-122.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.193.123.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2CBA43E75 for ; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 05:13:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from david@catwhisker.org) Received: from bunrab.catwhisker.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bunrab.catwhisker.org (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g84CDFEJ008414; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 05:13:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from david@bunrab.catwhisker.org) Received: (from david@localhost) by bunrab.catwhisker.org (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g84CDEJL008413; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 05:13:14 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 05:13:14 -0700 (PDT) From: David Wolfskill Message-Id: <200209041213.g84CDEJL008413@bunrab.catwhisker.org> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG, mariog@tomservo.cc Subject: Re: installworld broken In-Reply-To: <000b01c253f5$585f51d0$2000000a@TSO> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >From: "Mario Goebbels" >To: >Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 11:27:52 +0200 >Hmmmm. Is mergemaster really necessary? I mean when upgrading from a fresh >4.6 install? Note that this is posted to the -current list, so the context *I* infer from this is that you're referring to an upgrade from 4.6 (-STABLE) to 5.x (-CURRENT). Thus, the answer to the stated question is assuredly "yes." >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. Somehow, using mergemaster to handle all of that seems like a definite win to me; after all, that is why is exists -- or so I thought. Cheers, david (links to my resume at http://www.catwhisker.org/~david) -- David H. Wolfskill david@catwhisker.org To paraphrase David Hilbert, there can be no conflicts between the discipline of systems administration and Microsoft, since they have nothing in common. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message