Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [copious snippage]
> > 2. Cd /usr/src/sys/amd64/conf which contains the file MYKERNEL > > No it doesn't. CVSup will delete the files it doesn't know about, so > you should *SAVE a copy* of your favorite kernel config file outside of > the source tree and *copy* it into `/usr/src/sys/amd64/conf' after CVSup > finishes updates the sources. Really? What have I been doing wrong? I've been keeping custom kernel configs for years and cvsup has never deleted any of them. > > 4.Copy everything under /etc to /root/etc > > Why? This isn't mentioned in `/usr/src/UPDATING' and it doesn't really > help much if you manage to trash your /lib and /usr/lib trees. A better > suggestion is to ``make sure you have good level 0 dumps'', as suggested > by ``/usr/src/UPDATING''. While not mentioned in /usr/src/UPDATING, this is good practice in my opinion. mergemaster can be a tedious task, and making a local backup of /etc has allowed me to undo some careless keystrokes a number of times. I don't disagree with the dump advice, but an additional copy of /etc around doesn't hurt anything and occasionally makes fixing a mistake much faster an easier. -Bill _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
