Clarification Of In Place Upgrade Process

Mike Clarke jmc-freebsd2 at milibyte.co.uk
Sun Feb 7 09:40:21 UTC 2010


On Saturday 06 February 2010, Tim Daneliuk wrote:

> When migrating from 6.x to 7.x and to do system refreshes within a
> given release branch, I did/do this:
>
>         - Get sources
>         - mergemaster -i
>         - make buildworld buildkernel
>         - go single user
>         - make installworld installkernel
>         - reboot

Shouldn't mergemaster be run later in the sequence, like this:

	- make buildworld buildkernel
	- make installkernel
	- Reboot into single user mode
	- mergemaster -p
	- make installworld
	- mergemaster (or mergemaster -Ui)
	- Reboot

-- 
Mike Clarke


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