Updating -CURRENT, what about outdated files?

[Amit K. Rao]

On Friday 23 May 2003 05:12 pm, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > 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/ww
> >w/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.

OK. Thanks. I wondered because mergemaster(8) refers to -p as "pre-buildworld 
mode".

     -p          Pre-buildworld mode.  Compares only files known to be essen-
                 tial to the success of {build|install}world, including
                 /etc/make.conf.

Amit