docs/186625: Handbook rebuilding "world" upgrade procedure wrong mergemaster command

Wout Decré wout at canodus.be
Thu Feb 27 13:47:19 UTC 2014


On Mon, 2014-02-10 at 11:20 +0000, Wout Decr wrote:
> >Number:         186625
> >Category:       docs
> >Synopsis:       Handbook rebuilding "world" upgrade procedure wrong mergemaster command
> >Confidential:   no
> >Severity:       non-critical
> >Priority:       low
> >Responsible:    freebsd-doc
> >State:          open
> >Quarter:        
> >Keywords:       
> >Date-Required:
> >Class:          doc-bug
> >Submitter-Id:   current-users
> >Arrival-Date:   Mon Feb 10 11:30:00 UTC 2014
> >Closed-Date:
> >Last-Modified:
> >Originator:     Wout Decr
> >Release:        
> >Organization:
> Canodus
> >Environment:
> >Description:
> Under Procedure 23.2. Overview of Build World Process, step 9:
> 
> Update any remaining configuration files.
> 
> # mergemaster -p
> 
> It suggests you should do the mergemaster command two times with the -p option.
> 
> Before r43796, this was:
> 
> # mergemaster
> 

Can someone confirm this? If it was a mistake, I think it should be
corrected soon, as people may not fully merge their /etc directory when
rebuilding world.

Maybe a note can be added describing the -F option (ignore files which
differ only by VCS Id)?

Cheers

> 
> >How-To-Repeat:
> Check http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/makeworld.html
> >Fix:
> I think this should just be:
> 
> # mergemaster
> 
> >Release-Note:
> >Audit-Trail:
> >Unformatted:
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