mergemaster broken -- take 2

[Greg Byshenk]

On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 11:47:42AM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> Greg Byshenk wrote:
>  > Andrei Kolu wrote:
 
>  > > NOTE: I do not reboot my system until everything is updated. Why it is 
>  > > necessary to boot new kernel and then upgrade world is beyound me..YMMW
>  > 
>  > - I suppose that it is not strictly necessary to reboot between 
>  >   installing kernel and world, but I always do so.
 
> It _is_ necessary.  If you don't reboot, you're still running
> the old kernel which might not be able to support new binaries
> and libraries that installworld will install on your system.

Of course this is correct; my error.

The chance of something going wrong in this case is probably quite
small, but it something does go wrong it can go horribly wrong.
 

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greg byshenk  -  gbyshenk at byshenk.net  -  Leiden, NL