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Date:      Mon, 1 Mar 2004 09:49:12 -0500
From:      stan <stanb@panix.com>
To:        Free BSD Questions list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Small problem upgrading older machine
Message-ID:  <20040301144912.GA1660@teddy.fas.com>

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I'm upgrading a bunch of older machines *some as far back as 4.2). 

First let me say a bing THANKS YOU for all the hard work the release
engineering team does to make this work as well as it does.

Now, let me point out a small problem. When I got to the "make
installworld" step, I was politely informed that I needed a snsmp user.
Looking at UPDATING, I saw that I could install the newer mergemaster by
hand, and use it to add this user. I did that. Unfortunately the
installworld, then errored when it got to installing mergemaster, as there
was then on mergemaster.sh file in the directory, and no rule to build it. I
copied the file back from the final location, back to mergemaster.sh in the
source tree, and I'm re-running make installworld, which should go OK now. 

Would it be possible to fix the Makefile to prevent this problem?


-- 
"They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve
neither liberty nor safety."
						-- Benjamin Franklin



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