CVSUP and 5.2.1 RELEASE

[Steve O'Hara-Smith]

On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 11:03:10 +0200
Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock at gmx.net> wrote:

> mergemaster -p needs to happen before installworld, earlier than that is
> not required.

	From man mergemaster:

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

	I rest my case.

> > 	A mount -a or thereabouts is usually needed here.
> 
> No, you don't need to try and mount your nfs, linux, windows and smb 
> filesystems. :)

	Hence the "or thereabouts" - you may well need the NFS filesystem
if /usr/src is on NFS.

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