Problem using mergemaster for 10-alpha

Shane Ambler FreeBSD at ShaneWare.Biz
Fri Sep 20 11:50:18 UTC 2013


On 20/09/2013 19:39, Bryan Drewery wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 03:38:17PM +0930, Shane Ambler wrote:

>>
>> When using mergemaster with -a I get the following error
>>
>>
>> *** Creating the temporary root environment in /var/tmp/temproot
>>    *** /var/tmp/temproot ready for use
>>    *** Creating and populating directory structure in /var/tmp/temproot
>>
>> install: illegal option -- l

>>     *** FATAL ERROR: Cannot 'cd' to /home/shane/Projects/f10-test/src and
>> install files to
>>         the temproot environment
>
> See /usr/src/UPDATING entry 20130425
>

UPDATING describes mergemster -p as the issue and installing the new
version as a fix.

The new version fixes the fatal error above but it doesn't honour the
-D option so doesn't install anything into /mnt still leaving me with
manually copying from temproot.




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