Re: CVSUP and 5.2.1 RELEASE

From: Garance A Drosihn (drosih_at_rpi.edu)
Date: 07/14/04

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    Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 16:13:46 -0400
    To: Eirik Oeverby <ltning@anduin.net>
    
    

    At 9:39 PM +0200 7/14/04, Eirik Oeverby wrote:
    >Garance A Drosihn wrote:
    >>
    >>Someday we have to clean these instructions up, and make sure we
    >>have a short, consistent set of instructions. And that we are
    >>saying the same thing everywhere we say anything about updating
    >>the system. So far, we have never *needed* `mergemaster -p'
    >>before buildworld, and I think it is confusing to tell users it
              ^^^^^^^^^^^ - NOTE
    >>should be done then.
    >
    >This is NOT true. Recently mergemaster -p insisted that I add
    >certain users and groups to my passwd/group files, to support
    >pf. Without that, I bet installworld would have gone down in
                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^ - NOTE
    >flames .. correct me if I'm wrong (or don't bother, since this
    >is a pretty unimportant point anyway :)

    Hmm. I fail to see your point. What I said was:

    "We have never needed `mergemaster -p' before *-BUILDWORLD-*".

    You then emphatically state that I am wrong, and offer an
    example which talks about INSTALLWORLD. Not BUILDWORLD --
    which is what *I* was talking about -- but INSTALLWORLD.

    I don't want to sound like a screaming lunatic here, but I do
    think you have missed a very significant detail in what I was
    saying. Note that I also quoted /usr/src/Makefile, which says:

    >># 1. `cd /usr/src' (or to the directory containing your source tree).
    >># 2. `make buildworld'
    >># 3. `make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE' (default is GENERIC).
    >># 4. `make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE' (default is GENERIC).
    >># 5. `reboot' (in single user mode: boot -s from the loader prompt).
    >># 6. `mergemaster -p'
    >># 7. `make installworld'
    >># 8. `mergemaster'
    >># 9. `reboot'

    Note that this *does* do mergemaster -p before installworld. Not
    before buildworld, but definitely before installworld.

    -- 
    Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
    Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
    Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu
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