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Date:      Fri, 13 Jul 2001 09:30:50 +0200
From:      Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de>
To:        Tim Erlin <tperlin@yahoo.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: mergemaster - problem installing files
Message-ID:  <3B4EA3AA.E7CC9835@i-clue.de>
References:  <20010712175924.83029.qmail@web11707.mail.yahoo.com>

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Tim Erlin schrieb:
> 
> I'm updating my source, trying to run mergemaster, but
> it seems to fail when trying to install the temporary
> or merged files. The error is "problem installing
> ./blahblahfile, it will remain to merge by hand
> later."
> 
> I would search the mailing list for this problem, but
> since I search for "install" seems to return nothing,
> I'll presume something's broken.
> 
> I would hate to have to merge by hand...is there a
> quick solution to this problem?

This _is_ the quick solution: somehow you have managed to make one file
read-only even to root, thus mergemaster does not want to replace it.
All other files got merged.

After completing the mergemaster run, just merge this one file by hand.

HTH
-Christoph Sold

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