From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 13 0:28:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.i-clue.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A94737B403 for ; Fri, 13 Jul 2001 00:28:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from so@server.i-clue.de) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.i-clue.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id JAA19419; Fri, 13 Jul 2001 09:36:29 +0200 Message-ID: <3B4EA3AA.E7CC9835@i-clue.de> Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 09:30:50 +0200 From: Christoph Sold Reply-To: so@server.i-clue.de X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [de] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tim Erlin Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mergemaster - problem installing files References: <20010712175924.83029.qmail@web11707.mail.yahoo.com> 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 Tim Erlin schrieb: > > I'm updating my source, trying to run mergemaster, but > it seems to fail when trying to install the temporary > or merged files. The error is "problem installing > ./blahblahfile, it will remain to merge by hand > later." > > I would search the mailing list for this problem, but > since I search for "install" seems to return nothing, > I'll presume something's broken. > > I would hate to have to merge by hand...is there a > quick solution to this problem? This _is_ the quick solution: somehow you have managed to make one file read-only even to root, thus mergemaster does not want to replace it. All other files got merged. After completing the mergemaster run, just merge this one file by hand. HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message