On July 7, 2003 02:19 pm, you wrote: From the man page for mergemaster: -p Pre-buildworld mode. Compares only files known to be essen- tial to the success of {build|install}world, including /etc/make.conf.
There is a blurb near the top that mentions running pwd_mkdb with the -p option to rebuild the master password file. I think this is what is confusing you.
My manpage must be outdated or just wrong then:
# man mergemaster | grep -- -p
the -p option to rebuild your password databases and recreateThis is from a longer paragraph, and no mention is made of "Pre-buildworld mode". This may be indeed what is throwing me. There seems to also be an error in /usr/src/Makefile since it states that:
# For individuals wanting to upgrade their sources (even if only a # delta of a few days): # # 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'
Notice that there is no mention of mergemaster until step 6.
This is a test system, but it's remote and I don't want to clobber it unnecessarily.
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