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Date:      04 Jul 2003 11:36:36 -0400
From:      Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, John DeStefano <deesto@yahoo.com>
Subject:   Re: no /usr/src/etc/
Message-ID:  <44fzlm5mnv.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030703184634.54252.qmail@web40605.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <20030703184634.54252.qmail@web40605.mail.yahoo.com>

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John DeStefano <deesto@yahoo.com> writes:

> I was trying a 'mergemaster' as seen here but kept getting the following error:
> cp: /usr/src/etc/master.passwd: No such file or directory
>   *** FATAL ERROR: Cannot copy files to the temproot environment
> I verified that this file indeed does not exist, then realized something else when 
> trying to 'cd' to /usr/src/etc/: the entire /usr/src/etc/ directory doesn't exist!
> The only subdirectory of /usr/src/ is sys/conf/ .
> Have I broken something???

No.  You only need to use mergemaster if you have downloaded and are
installing an updated version of the whole system.



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