How to: Make World
April 17th, 2006 | by jg3 |Ahh, brilliant. Someone with the handle Understudy wrote us an article How to: Make World.
It doesn’t really plow any new ground, but it does a couple of things really well. First, it is comprehensive. Most articles on this topic are written by folks so new to the process that they miss stuff or are half finished because they got familiar with “their process” and never completed the content or explanation. And by comprehensive I mean this doc walks you through mergemaster. Most docs of this sort say “read the mergemaster man page and figure it out and don’t call me crying if you screw up.” Secondly, the doc is available as a .pdf which seems key when you’ll be performing such low-level operations and you will need to be rebooting (and the system just might not come back up).
That said, I would offer that the suggested way to clean up the ports could be improved and a this could be nicely be paired up with an article on portsupdate. Maybe one day, kids.
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