Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 09:28:53 -0500 From: "J. W. Ballantine" <jwb@homer.att.com> To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mergemaster and RELENG6 Message-ID: <200511111428.jABESsj18476@akiva.homer.att.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 11 Nov 2005 07:05:37 MST." <20051111070354.G13483@wonkity.com>
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Thanks, my understanding was mergemaster before installworld. But that appears to be wrong. ---------- In Response to your message ------------- > Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 07:05:37 -0700 (MST) > To: "J. W. Ballantine" <jwb@homer.att.com> > From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> > Subject: Re: mergemaster and RELENG6 > > On Fri, 11 Nov 2005, J. W. Ballantine wrote: > > > I'm trying to install RELEASE6 on a BSD machine, and the > > install fails in the mergemaster stage with: > > > > ... > > > cap_mkdb: illegal option -- l > > usage: cap_mkdb [-v] [-f outfile] file [file ...] > > *** Error code 1 > > > > Stop in /usr/src/etc. > > > > *** FATAL ERROR: Cannot 'cd' to /usr/src/etc and install files to > > the temproot environment > > > > The steps I took were: > > > > copied /etc/rc.d to /etc/old_rc.d > > removed /usr/src/* /usr/obj/* > > cvsup'ed RELENG6 > > changed to /usr/src > > did a make buildworld > > did a make buildkernel > > did a make installkernel > > did a mergemaster -i > > > > Anyone have any thoughts on what is causing mergemaster to fail? > > Probably because you skipped the 'make installworld' step and are still > running an old copy of mergemaster. > > -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA >
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