today's build is causing errors for me

Pollywog lists-fbsdstable at shadypond.com
Fri May 16 15:11:02 UTC 2008


On Friday 16 May 2008 06:04:34 Rob Lytle wrote:
> Hi Jeremy,
>
> I used Mergemaster.  Thats what I mean't when I said that I carefully
> "merged" /usr/src/etc/ with /etc.  But like I said, no files were
> replaced that contained my own configuration, e.g. group.  I will say
> this- that I have always considered Mergemaster a confusing mess,
> despite the dogma on the lists.  I have been running FreeBSD and
> installing it since 1998, so I have some experience- but this is new
> behavior beyond my previous experiences.

I have only been using FreeBSD for almost one year and I am still a little 
confused by Mergemaster, but what helped me with it was the book "Absolute 
FreeBSD".  I would not have been able to deal with it without the book.


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