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From: Thomas Backman <serenity@exscape.org>
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 12:34:19 +0200
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On Jul 11, 2007, at 12:03 PM, Gaspar Chilingarov wrote:

> In other hand running rm /etc/rc.d/* before mergermaster's start  
> can render system unusable, if mergemaster will fail for some reason.
>
> -- 
> Gaspar Chilingarov
What about the opposite, i.e. removing etc/rc.d/* from the temproot?  
It might be a horrible solution, but it should work, no?

...
make installworld
mkdir /var/tmp/root
cd /usr/src/etc
make DESTDIR=/var/tmp/root distrib-dirs distribution
cd /var/tmp/root
find -d . -type d | xargs rmdir 2>/dev/null
rm -rf /var/tmp/root/etc/rc.d
mergemaster

Obviously, tell mergemaster to use the current temproot. Again, this  
might be a horrible solution, I don't know. ;)

/Thomas