mergemaster still having issues

Pete Wright pete at nomadlogic.org
Fri May 17 17:55:21 UTC 2019



On 5/17/19 10:51 AM, David Wolfskill wrote:
> On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 10:46:57AM -0700, Pete Wright wrote:
>> hello - i am still having issues with mergemaster when
>> building/installing current on my end as per this thread:
>> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2019-May/073403.html
>>
>> my source contains the fix that I think we committed to address the
>> original issue, are there any other steps required to get things working:
>> *** Creating the temporary root environment in /var/tmp/temproot
>>    *** /var/tmp/temproot ready for use
>>    *** Creating and populating directory structure in /var/tmp/temproot
>>
>> cp: /usr/home/pete/git/freebsd/etc/master.passwd: No such file or directory
>>
>>     *** FATAL ERROR: Cannot copy files to the temproot environment
>>
>> cheers,
>> -pete
> Yes: you need to actually install that (new) version of mergemaster
> before you try to use it.
>
> E.g.:
> 	pushd usr.bin/mergemaster && make install; popd
>
> Then re-start the userland installation (e.g., "mergemaster -p ...") and
> proceed with the rest of the install as usual.

Ah OK, i think missed that in the thread - and the promised update to 
the UPDATING file in the commit doesn't seem to have landed yet either.

Thanks David!
-pete

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Pete Wright
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