From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 25 13:18:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from forrie.net (forrie.net [64.20.73.233]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B45C37B67F for ; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 13:18:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from forrie@forrie.com) Received: from forrie.forrie.com (dhcp-north-71-168.navipath.net [64.20.71.168]) by forrie.net with id e6PKIEg54531 for ; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 16:18:14 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20000725160800.00c62310@64.20.73.233> X-Sender: forrie@64.20.73.233 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 16:14:05 -0400 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Forrest Aldrich Subject: Mergemaster usage Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I had a problem recently, with the new changes in kernel compiling, with Mergemaster that effectively hosed my system. It's probably due to user error, however I followed the new directions outlined in Kris' message posting. I tried using mergemaster -a (to automatically import diffs), but no go. The system will boot, but now it can't run getty on /dev/ttyXX, which is perhaps a part of another problem with the update I performed. Before I proceed and reinstall this system (it's a test system, so no big deal) I want to understand this procedure clearly -- we have a lot of other systems that will be updated to 4.x. Here is the procedure I understand to be correct: make buildworld make buildkernel make installkernel shutdown (drop into single-user mode) make installworld mergemaster reboot Now, my problem seems to happen at the 'mergemaster' level. The first time I ran it, it went into interactive mode (really, I don't have time to answer 100 questions, so I thought that mergmaster -a would suffice -- there are a lot of systems that will be potentially updated by this process)... So, the problem with the getty might very well be due to something different. The behavior I would like to see automated is import diffs of new files into older ones (ie /usr/src/etc/defaults/make.conf and /etc/make.conf, et al). Can someone shed some light on this? Thanks in advance........... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message