[[ summarizing a conversation in irc ]] The below fragment doesn't match UPDATING. Since I don't think the order matters; and since we've had no reports that UPDATING is wrong; and since I think way more people follow updating than the Makefile; we should fix the makefile and make the docs match both.
Warner On May 29, 2013, at 10:02 AM, Chris Rees wrote: > Hi all! > > Back in 2005, when Alexander Leidinger wrote the make delete-old > target, he documented the order of upgrade such that it should be run > before mergemaster [1]; > > # 7. `make installworld' > # 8. `make delete-old' > # 9. `mergemaster' > > I have merged the delete-old section of the Handbook into the > upgrading chapter, and independently decided to put mergemaster first, > because I thought it would be safer, but checked here before I > committed. > > I think that steps 8 and 9 should be reversed, because of the > possibility of an unbootable system being made, when an rc script > references an executable that has just been removed for example. > > I cannot think of an example where the system is left > unbootable/damaged if make delete-old is run after mergemaster. > > What do people think of the patch at [2]? > > Chris > > [1] http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/Makefile?r1=148329&r2=148330&; > > [2] http://www.bayofrum.net/~crees/patches/delete-old-order.diff _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
