On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 05:44:29PM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2016/05/20 18:26, Frederic Cambus wrote: > > On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 06:02:47PM +0200, Alessandro DE LAURENZIS wrote: > > > > > > At the end of my last upgrade, I didn't find he message relating to > > > sysmerge(8) > > > as the first operation to be run after rebooting. > > > > > > Isn't it required anymore? I didn't find nothing about that in this > > > list... > > > > The installer now automatically runs sysmerge(8) on first boot after > > an upgrade. > > > > More details can be found on ajacoutot@ p2k16 report: > > > > http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20160508140927 > > > > The automatic run only handles simple updates. You still need to run
Well, "simple" sure ok. aka 90% of the files :-) > it manually sometimes; there will be a "<file> unhandled, re-run > sysmerge" message on screen during boot, and if you have things > setup so you receive root's email you'll get a message telling > you when that needs to be done. > > Also note this automatic run is only done when you use the > installer to update; if you untar sets at runtime or "make build" > then you can "echo sysmerge -a >> /etc/rc.sysmerge" yourself > if you want to do this at boot. What Stuart said... In a word, if you upgrade using the official procedure, then if sysmerge cannot handle a file on its own, then you'll get a mail. -- Antoine
