From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 7 20:22:23 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 365691065672 for ; Wed, 7 Jan 2009 20:22:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Albert.Shih@obspm.fr) Received: from blade2-ext.obspm.fr (blade2-ext.obspm.fr [145.238.186.8]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CEC38FC1F for ; Wed, 7 Jan 2009 20:22:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Albert.Shih@obspm.fr) Received: from obspm.fr (pcjas.obspm.fr [145.238.184.233]) by blade2-ext.obspm.fr (8.13.8/8.13.8/SIO Observatoire de Paris - 15/11/07) with ESMTP id n07KM6h7031686 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Wed, 7 Jan 2009 21:22:07 +0100 Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 21:22:06 +0100 From: Albert Shih To: Peter Boosten Message-ID: <20090107202206.GK99261@obspm.fr> References: <4964467D.9020606@boosten.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <4964467D.9020606@boosten.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0 (blade2-ext.obspm.fr [145.238.186.20]); Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:22:07 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.94.2/8842/Wed Jan 7 15:06:50 2009 on blade2-ext.obspm.fr X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Johann Hasselbach Subject: Re: mergemaster goof when src upgrading 7.0 -> 7.1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Albert.Shih@obspm.fr List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:22:23 -0000 Le 07/01/2009 à 07:06:53+0100, Peter Boosten a écrit > Johann Hasselbach wrote: > > I was doing a src upgrade from 7.0 to 7.1 > > > > After installkernel, i rebooted, and accidently ran "mergemaster" > > instead of "mergemaster -p" before installworld. I ctrl-c'd once I > > realized what I had done, but the damage was done. > > > > It seems to have overwritten my password and group files. > > > > I've stated this before: In my opinion this entire 'I want to overwrite > your passwd file' attitude from mergemaster is nonsense: at installation > time you're required to add an additional user, and mergemaster wants to > undo that again. > Well...i'm not developper but long time ago, when I update from FreeBSD x.y to Freebsd x+1,(0-1) I loose many time to find something don't work because the Freebsd x+1 need some new system account. Regards. -- Albert SHIH SIO batiment 15 Observatoire de Paris Meudon 5 Place Jules Janssen 92195 Meudon Cedex Téléphone : 01 45 07 76 26 Heure local/Local time: Mer 7 jan 2009 21:20:36 CET