From 94877c06f3b72528e86d1dca1f291285b2916591 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexander Leidinger Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 15:17:34 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Suggest to run the delete-old target after the second mergemaster. If you run 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 --- UPDATING | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/UPDATING b/UPDATING index 9b42760f57d2..0323738cb4c0 100644 --- a/UPDATING +++ b/UPDATING @@ -1136,8 +1136,8 @@ COMMON ITEMS: [3] mergemaster -p [5] make installworld - make delete-old mergemaster -i [4] + make delete-old [6] @@ -1174,8 +1174,8 @@ COMMON ITEMS: [3] mergemaster -p [5] make installworld - make delete-old mergemaster -i [4] + make delete-old [6] 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