[afnog] mergemaster mess

[Mike Barnard]

 sorry,  i am doing this on FreeBSD 5.4. i already ran cvsup and got my
stable  source. the method i followed is specified in the handbook. but ill
give this a  shorrt and see

On 2/15/06, Julius E. Kidubuka <juki at one2net.co.ug> wrote:
>
> Hello Mike,
>
> First of all, you didn't mention exactly what you are doing and
> which version of BSD your are using.
>
> Seconly am not really certain about your error but I remember
> (abt a year or so ago) trying to upgrade from FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE
> to 4.11-STABLE and I too had a not so similar problem but all
> the same used similar method.
>
> From the info you've provided, it seems like you are trying to do an
> upgrade. If so, you could try to do the following (in specific order);
>
>
> cd /usr/share/examples/cvsup
> cvsup -g -L 2 stable-supfile
>
> cd /usr/src
> make buildworld
> make installworld
>
> cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf
> config -r MYKERN
> cd /usr/src/sys/compile/MYKERN
> make depend
> make
> make install
>
> cp -r /etc  /etc.backup    /* Just to make a backup of your /etc dir */
>
> mergemaster -p
>
> reboot
>
>
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Rgds,
> Julius.
>
> --
> "What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what
> happens to us."
>
>
>
>
> On 2/15/06, Mike Barnard <mike.barnardq at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >  Hi, i have  run into something that i have not encountered before with
> > mergemaster. I updated my sources and built my box the  usual way i.e
> >
> >  cd /usr/src
> > make buildworld
> > make buildkernel KERNCONF=MYKERN
> > make installkernel
> >  KERNCONF=MYKERN
> >
> > shutdown -r now
> >
> > boot -s
> > fsck -p
> > mount -u /
> > mount -a -t ufs
> > swapon -a
> >
> > cd /usr/src
> >
> > make installworld
> > mergemaster
> > shutdown -r now
> >
> >
> > when i reboot it   comes  up great but  gives  these errors
> >
> > /etc/rc.d/devd: WARNING: $devd_enable is not set properly - see rc.conf(5)
> >
> >
>


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