5.3 Release

Gary Kline kline at tao.thought.org
Mon Oct 25 11:56:47 PDT 2004


On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 11:44:40AM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 11:53:47PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 11:00:40PM -0400, epilogue wrote:
> > > On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 20:01:28 -0400 (EDT)
> > > daemon at foxchat.net wrote:
> > > 
> > > >     also having to update ports as I'm finding some stuff no longer
> > > >     works.
> > > 
> > > it sounds as though you might want to get into the habit of reading both
> > > /usr/src/UPDATING (every sup of source) and /usr/ports/UPDATING (every
> > > sup of ports) in order to both understand and be prepared to manage such
> > > issues.
> > > 
> > 
> > 	I assume that you mean using the "mergemaster -p" to
> > 	create a "proxy account."  I tried this with 5.3-RELEASE #2
> > 	tonight.  No joy.  Can anyone on-list clue  me in?
> 
> What do you mean by "no joy"?  What happened when you ran 'mergemaster
> -p'?
> 

	It didn't create a proxy account; or I didn't understand
	where/how it did.  When I went ahead with the 
	make installworld following the mergmaster -p, I got
	the same make error and the install quit.  After I
	added NO_PF=yes to make.conf, everything installed.


	gary




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