mergemaster and RELENG6

[J. W. Ballantine]

Thanks, my understanding was mergemaster before installworld. 
But that appears to be wrong.

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>  Date:  Fri, 11 Nov 2005 07:05:37 -0700 (MST)
>  To:  "J. W. Ballantine" <jwb at homer.att.com>
>  From:  Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com>
>  Subject:  Re: mergemaster and RELENG6
>
>  On Fri, 11 Nov 2005, J. W. Ballantine wrote:
>  
>  > I'm trying to install RELEASE6 on a BSD machine, and the
>  > install fails in the mergemaster stage with:
>  >
>  
>  ...
>  
>  > cap_mkdb: illegal option -- l
>  > usage: cap_mkdb [-v] [-f outfile] file [file ...]
>  > *** Error code 1
>  >
>  > Stop in /usr/src/etc.
>  >
>  >  *** FATAL ERROR: Cannot 'cd' to /usr/src/etc and install files to
>  >      the temproot environment
>  >
>  > The steps I took were:
>  >
>  >  copied /etc/rc.d to /etc/old_rc.d
>  >  removed /usr/src/* /usr/obj/*
>  >  cvsup'ed RELENG6
>  >  changed to /usr/src
>  >  did a make buildworld
>  >  did a make buildkernel
>  >  did a make installkernel
>  >  did a mergemaster -i
>  >
>  > Anyone have any thoughts on what is causing mergemaster to fail?
>  
>  Probably because you skipped the 'make installworld' step and are still 
>  running an old copy of mergemaster.
>  
>  -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
>