Louis LeBlanc wrote:
On 06/23/05 10:02 PM, Björn König sat at the `puter and typed:
The -p stands for "pre-buildworld mode", i.e. you should run it before
buildworld. ;-)
Uh, careful. My copy of the FreeBSD handbook
(http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html)
says to do it this way:
# make buildworld
# make buildkernel
# make installkernel
# reboot
[...]
After installkernel finishes successfully, you should boot in single
user mode (i.e. using boot -s from the loader prompt). Then run:
# mergemaster -p
# make installworld
# mergemaster
# reboot
Indeed.
I read the mergemaster script partially and deceided that it won't hurt
to run 'mergemaster -p' before 'make buildworld'; and I think that this
way is the intention of the author of mergemaster too. If I'm mistaken
then somebody should state the description in mergemaster(8) more
precisely. I think it is confusing to call it 'pre-buildworld mode' if
it would be better to execute this command after 'make buildworld' in
general. I prefer looking into manpages than into the handbook.
Björn
P.S.: I CC'd Doug Barton who wrote most parts of mergemaster.
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