Updating -CURRENT, what about outdated files?

[Kevin Oberman]

> Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 17:14:15 -0400
> From: Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc at attbi.com>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-current at freebsd.org
> 
> On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 05:06:12PM -0400, Amit K. Rao wrote:
> > 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
> 
> Thanks for this.  Too many mailing lists to look for the answers to, sometimes. :)
> 
> > BTW, shouldn't "mergemaster -p" be before "make buildworld" ?
> 
> I am just following order of the steps outlined in 
> /usr/src/Makefile
> (I skip the reboot steps though :)

Sometimes I've done it, but a bad idea as, in some cases, it may produce a
broken system.

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