Updating -CURRENT, what about outdated files?

[Kevin Oberman]

> From: "Amit K. Rao" <arao at niksun.com>
> Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 17:06:12 -0400
> Sender: owner-freebsd-current at freebsd.org
> 
> Something like this was covered a few times before. See for example:
> http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=2154436+2157803+/usr/local/www/db/text/2003/freebsd-questions/20030323.freebsd-questions
> 
> 
> BTW, shouldn't "mergemaster -p" be before "make buildworld" ?

No. See src/UPDATING. "mergemaster -p" updates files that are required
for installworld to work, typically passwd and group. UPDATING calls for
it to be run after booting the new kernel, but before installworld.

R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman at es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634