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Date:      Mon, 2 Dec 2002 20:15:33 +1100 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        shelton@sentry.granch.ru, <freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: bin/45906: mergemaster stops when kern.securelevel > 1
Message-ID:  <20021202201116.L3546-100000@gamplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <200212020838.gB28cjmh087292@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:

> Synopsis: mergemaster stops when kern.securelevel > 1
>
> This is not a bug.  The documented way of upgrading from source
> includes booting into single-user mode before running mergemaster.
> When in single-user mode kern.securelevel hasn't been raised, yet.
> You will have no problems then.

I disagree that this is not a bug.  The emptyness of /var/empty is
mainly cosmetic.  It has nothing to do with security.  The cosmetic
part should be implemented using uchg if at all.

Bruce


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