mergemaster problem

[Jason Henson]

On 03/14/05 00:02:43, masterkev28 masterkev28 wrote:
> Hi,
> I didn't rebuild world, or kernel, however just some regular routine
> portupgrade -a.
> The problem is that no matter what I do with mergemaster, I get this
> error( also the same error occurs on another box of mine), and it
> started happening about a week ago after I did cvsup.
> 
> It keeps complaining the line 76~80 in /usr/src/etc/Makefile, where I
> have no idea what's wrong with this file.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Kev
>

Cvsup!  Cvsup what, the stanard file to upgrade your base system?  You  
don't need mergemaster unless you cvsup your base system, and if you  
did that and merged the new files, thats bad.  You should rebuild the  
world and the kernel then install them.  And don't cvsup unless you  
intend to upgrade your base system.  That can put things out of sink.

> 
> On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 02:29:10 +0000, Jason Henson <jason at ec.rr.com>
> wrote:
> > On 03/13/05 17:08:56, masterkev28 masterkev28 wrote:
> > > Hello everyone,
> > > When I do mergemaster -ia, I get the following errors:
> > >
> > > *** The directory specified for the temporary root environment,
> > >     /var/tmp/temproot, exists.  This can be a security risk if
> > > untrusted
> > >     users have access to the system.
> > >
> >
> > Why are you using -ia, they are th opposit in the man page.  You
> > should:
> >
> > # make buildworld
> > # make buildkernel
> > # make installkernel
> > # reboot
> > After installkernel finishes successfully, you should boot in  
> single
> > user mode (i.e. using boot -s from the loader prompt). Then run:
> > # mergemaster -p
> > # make installworld
> > # mergemaster
> > # reboot
> >
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