From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 17 13:23: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n37.san.rr.com (dt051n37.san.rr.com [204.210.32.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33B6F37B405 for ; Sun, 17 Jun 2001 13:22:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@DougBarton.net) Received: from DougBarton.net (master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n37.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA28676; Sun, 17 Jun 2001 13:22:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@DougBarton.net) Message-ID: <3B2D118A.2940737F@DougBarton.net> Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 13:22:34 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Salvo Bartolotta Cc: Peter , Forrest Aldrich , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.3-STABLE mergemaster problems References: <992384390.3b269586a92c7@webmail.neomedia.it> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Salvo Bartolotta wrote: > > > After running mergemaster -ai on a newly updated system, i went back to run > > mergemaster -rv > > however it is unable to install files i tell it to. Only saying > > *** Problem installing ./dev/MAKEDEV, it will remain to merge by hand > > It gives this error on every file. > > Is there something wrong with mergemaster in 4.3? > > I am running (right now) a "4.3-STABLE FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE #0: Sun Jun 10 > 17:50:16 CEST" system. > > I saw those errors while running a simple mergemaster -v -d. So I went > diff'ing here and there to see what had just happened. AFAICT, nothing > serious. The files had been correctly updated (despite the messages stating > exactly the contrary). > > You may wish to just run mergemaster once again **after** updating your > configuration files. N.B. in the first run, you will have to ignore the > complaints about the impossibility of installing the various relevant files. > > It seems to be a harmless bug. I simply didn't find time to complain a couple > of days ago, and I almost forgot all about it :-) It's a known bug that I'm going to work on today. If y'all are running -stable you should subscribe to and read the freebsd-stable mailing list. This has been discussed several times there now. Doug -- If you're never wrong, you're not trying hard enough. Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message