Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 13:15:51 -0500 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: John Von Essen <essenz@essenz.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RELENG_4 Tag... Message-ID: <3E6CD657.4050405@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <20030310094853.L3006-100000@beck.quonix.net> References: <20030310094853.L3006-100000@beck.quonix.net>
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John Von Essen wrote: > I am confused about something. > > I just did a cvsup to RELENG_4. But after building my kernel, it shows > 4.8-RC, not 4.7-STABLE > > Is there a reason for this? Yes, the code is in freeze right now for testing for 4.8-RELEASE. Thus the head of the 4.X code tree is a release candidate for 4.8 at this time. > Also, mergemaster completely obliterated my system. Had to copy everything > back from by backup. Always backup /etc before running mergemaster, although I've never had problems. > Let me ask this. My feelings with mergemaster are as follows: > > I rather install a completely new /etc, then go in and make changes to the > two or three files that I need to modify, usually just mail/, rc.conf, and > the passwd files. That will work as well, but you should still back up /etc before doing this. > Is there a way to do this with mergemaster? I don't think so, but mergemaster creates a new /etc under (I think) /tmp. So you could read through the mergemaster script and see how it creates this and just do the same thing. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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