Rebuilding "world"

[Ralph M. Los]

::-----Original Message-----
::From: Andrew Moran [mailto:amoran at forsythia.net] 
::Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 1:56 AM
::To: Ralph M. Los
::Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
::Subject: Re: Rebuilding "world"
::
::
::
::Your installworld error is saying that it can't install 
::without the new  
::proxy user being added.    the proxy user is added during the  
::mergemaster -p.. So because your mergemaster -p is failing, your  
::installworld is failing.  Fix the mergemaster problem, and your  
::installworld problem should go away.
::
::So what kind of error is your 'mergemaster -p' giving you?
::
::--Andy
::
::On Oct 5, 2004, at 9:15 PM, Ralph M. Los wrote:
::
::> OK, so I'm trying to follow the instructions in the handbook: 
::> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/
::> makeworld.html
::> , and failed repeatedly.  Everything appears to go OK, except 
::> "mergemaster -p" seems to fail with some variable errors, and "make 
::> installworld" fails with the error:
::>
::> -------------------------------------------------------------
::> bonkers# make installworld
::> ERROR: Required proxy user is missing, see /usr/src/UPDATING.
::> *** Error code 1
::>
::> Stop in /usr/src.
::> *** Error code 1
::>
::> Stop in /usr/src.
::>
::> -------------------------------------------------------------
::> What does this mean?!
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	By George I believe I've solved it.  My mergemaster output was
basically the contents of my /etc/make.conf file.  I added NO_PF=yo (as
suggested by the UPDATING file), and life was peachy.  Some side
questions... Is MergeMaster supposed to spew back endless supplies of
configuration files I never touched?  What is suggested, I just did an
"I" for most options... Except the password and group files - hope that
turns out OK.  I've also noticed that I never rebuilt my kernel, and I
noticed the "WARNING" in the UPDATING file too late about updating your
kernel before running make installworld... Oops.  Also, the output of my
"uname -a" is this:
FreeBSD bonkers.domain.com 6.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT #0: Tue Oct
5 08:09:19 EDT 2004
root at bonkers.domain.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
  ... So, 6.0-CURRENT!? I thought the latest was 5.3!!  Can someone
clear this up for me?

Thanks,
  Ralph