From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 22 10:30:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AE9A37B401 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 10:30:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tomts6-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts6.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE71543E3B for ; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 10:30:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pippo@bellnet.ca) Received: from pippo.bellnet.ca ([65.94.97.110]) by tomts6-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.04.19 201-253-122-122-119-20020516) with ESMTP id <20021022173023.HXUH24390.tomts6-srv.bellnexxia.net@pippo.bellnet.ca>; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 13:30:23 -0400 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20021022131427.00a9a448@pop51.bellnet.ca> X-Sender: lesp3999@pop51.bellnet.ca X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 13:30:21 -0400 To: Kent Stewart From: pippo@bellnet.ca Subject: Re: mergemaster problem Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <3DB58480.9020102@owt.com> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20021022115618.00a901b0@mail.host45.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 10:01 AM 10/22/2002 -0700, you wrote: I must say, as I often have remarked, that the handbook is rather foggy - you often have to read a whole slew of things that are urelated before you get to the main point - I was trying to follow the manual, step by step - but it sure doesn't seem to work quite that way. :(( I did vipw with the restored backed-up files and now I have passwd and will probably be ok. So, as I understand it, I should just run make buildwold from /usr/src, then build the new kernel and then do make installworld, then update the files not updated by make world etc, etc. as in the handbook. That, then, will upgrade my system to 4.7. Right? As I need no changes to the programs I have installed (they're all up-to-date with portupgrade), I should just verify that the /etc/group, passwd and master.passwd files are conforming to the newer version. And this, as I understand, can be done by the mergemaster. Thanks much. PJ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message