From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 25 03:32:20 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79CA016A4CE for ; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 03:32:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.195]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05EFC43D2F for ; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 03:32:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from augusts@gmail.com) Received: by mproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 73so82220rnk for ; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 20:32:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.38.72.72 with SMTP id u72mr1769264rna; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 20:32:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.38.86.32 with HTTP; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 20:32:19 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <46fa40c104082420325a447633@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 13:32:19 +1000 From: August Simonelli To: "Donald J. O'Neill" In-Reply-To: <200408242211.47938.donaldj@ameritech.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <46fa40c104082403205419fd65@mail.gmail.com> <20040824230642.GR3767@gentoo-npk.bmp.ub> <200408242211.47938.donaldj@ameritech.net> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Re: uname -v shows no difference after buildkernel and installkernel etc X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: August Simonelli List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 03:32:20 -0000 On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 22:11:47 -0500, Donald J. O'Neill wrote: > August, > > I've been following this thread today. It's very interesting. It appears > to me, you mentioned your mistake in your first post. > "did a mergemaster and didn't accept any changes (it was a fresh > system) rebooted and logged in" > Without accepting those changes, you kept what you had. It wasn't a This is what is confusing me about mergemaster. Isn't it "just" for comparing and deciding which config files one wants kept? That is, if I have a modifed pkgtools.conf or rc.conf or whatever I should be able to merge it up with the newly rebuilt system (which would have fresh versions of such files). Or I could just tell it to keep my old config files cause they have all my modifications. I do get that the new conf files may have changes we need, so merging is better. Now, why am i babbling about this? Cause when doing the mergemaster on this system my fingers got really fat and I'm not sure how I answered. Maybe this lead to my problem. Would that cause a) the wrong kernel to be installed or just b) the wrong kernel to be reported (ie did i screw up the update of the file that stores the kernel details?). Also, just for clarification, it WAS a fresh system, so, in theory, mergemaster would not have had any changes to make (except if it updates some text string somwhere that is the basis for the uname -v, as in my and b options above). Sorry if this is painfully ignorant; I'm learning slowly! :-) > fresh system and needed the information from mergemaster. If you didn't > clear out /usr/obj, it might be possible to rerun mergemaster and > accept the changes. I would keep MYCUSTOM somewhere other > than /root/kernels. Personally, I use /home/save4rebuild, and keep a > copy of everything else I think I might need. I've had to > reinstall /, /var, /tmp, /usr, but I always manage to keep /home safe. This seems to be what most people are saying ... and i think it makes more sense. I have officially adopted save4rebuild for my systems! :-) back to me rebuild (celeron 433 is a bit sloooow). august