Re: Regarding Upgrade
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-10-09 00:46:22 -0500: On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 12:24:00AM -0400, Matt Garcia wrote: I finished doing an upgrade for freebsd from 4.5-stable to 4.7RC. I had a question regarding the mergemaster. After everything is done when running the mergemaster everything on the LEFT side is new and everything on the right side is old or is it vice versa ? i forgot which is which. Heh, I used to have to go to the man page, or a book I had every time. Strange. I never had this problem. It's obvious for files that have local mods, because, well, you modified them (/etc/passwd...), and irrelevant in case of files w/o any local mods, because then you can just install the new version. Without the need to know which side of the screen the new file is at. -- begin 666 nonexistent.vbs FreeBSD 4.7-RC 11:41AM up 21 days, 18:55, 14 users, load averages: 0.13, 0.15, 0.10 end To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Regarding Upgrade
On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Matt Garcia wrote: I finished doing an upgrade for freebsd from 4.5-stable to 4.7RC. I had a question regarding the mergemaster. After everything is done when running the mergemaster everything on the LEFT side is new and everything on the right side is old or is it vice versa ? i forgot which is which. Check the revision dates at the top of the file. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Regarding Upgrade
Arent i full of questions :)? I have another question after i did my upgrade it stopped and i got this error message: /usr/src/share/mk/bsd.lib.mk, line 19: Missing dependency operator /usr/src/share/mk/bsd.lib.mk, line 28: if-less endif /usr/src/share/mk/bsd.lib.mk, line 28: Need an operator make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src/lib. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. What should i do? any help would be greatly apperciated. I love how you all respond so quickly. __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Regarding Upgrade
Hi, I finished doing an upgrade for freebsd from 4.5-stable to 4.7RC. I had a question regarding the mergemaster. After everything is done when running the mergemaster everything on the LEFT side is new and everything on the right side is old or is it vice versa ? i forgot which is which. Any help would be apperciated thank you. __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Regarding Upgrade
On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 12:24:00AM -0400, Matt Garcia wrote: Hi, I finished doing an upgrade for freebsd from 4.5-stable to 4.7RC. I had a question regarding the mergemaster. After everything is done when running the mergemaster everything on the LEFT side is new and everything on the right side is old or is it vice versa ? i forgot which is which. Heh, I used to have to go to the man page, or a book I had every time. I finally figured out a mneumonic, but it's so complex, I'm not going to mention it here, it has to do with the right brain being the dreamer and looking ahead. :) (Well, I sort of mentioned it, but...) Left is old, right is new--easier to determine when you're looking at things like /etc/passwd---because only the left side will have the users you've added. -- Scott PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 D575 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Xander: Cavalry's here! Cavalry's a scared guy with a club, but it's here! msg04450/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
