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Suggest to run the delete-old target after the second mergemaster. If you run

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it before, your rc scripts may still reference old files/directories and
if you are in the unlucky situation to have triggered a reboot (intentionally
or not) between the delete-old run and the mergemaster, your system may not
start anymore.

While I'm here, give a hint about delete-old-libs.

Noticed by:	bcr (luckily in a discussion and not by getting hit by this)
MFC after:	1 week
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Alexander Leidinger 2010-12-20 15:17:34 +00:00
parent da1781dd59
commit 94877c06f3
Notes: svn2git 2020-12-20 02:59:44 +00:00 
svn path=/head/; revision=216591
1 changed files with 6 additions and 2 deletions
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@ -1136,8 +1136,8 @@ COMMON ITEMS:
<reboot in single user> [3]
mergemaster -p [5]
make installworld
make delete-old
mergemaster -i [4]
make delete-old [6]
<reboot>
@ -1174,8 +1174,8 @@ COMMON ITEMS:
<reboot in single user> [3]
mergemaster -p [5]
make installworld
make delete-old
mergemaster -i [4]
make delete-old [6]
<reboot>
Make sure that you've read the UPDATING file to understand the
@ -1218,6 +1218,10 @@ COMMON ITEMS:
install) after the buildworld before this step if you last updated
from current before 20020224 or from -stable before 20020408.
[6] This only deletes old files and directories. Old libraries
can be deleted by "make delete-old-libs", but you have to make
sure that no program is using those libraries anymore.
[8] In order to have a kernel that can run the 4.x binaries needed to
do an installworld, you must include the COMPAT_FREEBSD4 option in
your kernel. Failure to do so may leave you with a system that is