svn commit: r243798 - head

Garrett Cooper yanegomi at gmail.com
Sun Dec 2 23:20:58 UTC 2012


On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 2:16 PM, Garrett Cooper <yanegomi at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Robert Watson <rwatson at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> ...
>
>> I've also added an UPDATING entry.
>>
>> Note that running "mergemaster -p" is a documented (and necessary) part of
>> the world upgrade process.  Normally I wouldn't add an UPDATING entry, and
>> in general we haven't done it for new users in the past, but it seems an
>> inordinate number of people are running into this due to not using
>> "mergemaster -p" (and on the whole not removing their feet), so a reminder
>> was necessary.
>
> Unfortunately I also propogated this fallacy (not needing mergemaster
> -p) as well.
>
> I'm rerunning a build with nanobsd on my 9/stable workstation, as I
> ran into problems in the last go-around with the user/group being
> missing, but we'll see if I run into it again (seems like we should
> have a slightly more intelligent mechanism for dealing with this issue
> in the build system itself instead of mergemaster).

    e-yup... same error. I'll see if I can hack this because it's a
bit annoying.
Thanks,
-Garrett


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