From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jun 14 20:27:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from orion.ac.hmc.edu (Orion.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FF6E37BA3C for ; Wed, 14 Jun 2000 20:27:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brdavis@orion.ac.hmc.edu) Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by orion.ac.hmc.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA04256; Wed, 14 Jun 2000 20:24:09 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 20:24:09 -0700 From: Brooks Davis To: Francisco Reyes Cc: FreeBSD Stable List Subject: Re: How often to run mergemaster? Message-ID: <20000614202409.B2694@orion.ac.hmc.edu> References: <200006150312.XAA11324@sanson.reyes.somos.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre4i In-Reply-To: <200006150312.XAA11324@sanson.reyes.somos.net>; from fran@reyes.somos.net on Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 11:20:19PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 11:20:19PM -0400, Francisco Reyes wrote: > I recently started to track 4.X Stable. How often does one need > to run mergemaster, or even better how does one even know that > it needs to be run? You should run it after each installworld. If you don't your /etc may be out of sync with your binaries which could be bad. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message