Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 01:48:58 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: shelton@sentry.granch.ru, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/45906: mergemaster stops when kern.securelevel > 1 Message-ID: <20021202234858.GE613@gothmog.gr> In-Reply-To: <20021202201116.L3546-100000@gamplex.bde.org> References: <200212020838.gB28cjmh087292@freefall.freebsd.org> <20021202201116.L3546-100000@gamplex.bde.org>
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On 2002-12-02 20:15, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> wrote: > 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. I can reopen the PR, if you think that the problem it describes needs fixing. Or you can do it. I don't mind. I am not sure if /var/empty is the only spot where a multiuser installworld can fail with a raised kern.securelevel, but anyway :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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