no /usr/src/etc/

[Lowell Gilbert]

John DeStefano <deesto at yahoo.com> writes:

> I was trying a 'mergemaster' as seen here but kept getting the following error:
> cp: /usr/src/etc/master.passwd: No such file or directory
>   *** FATAL ERROR: Cannot copy files to the temproot environment
> I verified that this file indeed does not exist, then realized something else when 
> trying to 'cd' to /usr/src/etc/: the entire /usr/src/etc/ directory doesn't exist!
> The only subdirectory of /usr/src/ is sys/conf/ .
> Have I broken something???

No.  You only need to use mergemaster if you have downloaded and are
installing an updated version of the whole system.