Re: Haven't been able to make world in about a year

On Tuesday 28 February 2006 08:52, Kris Kennaway wrote:
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 08:48:15AM -0600, Donald J. O'Neill wrote:
11) script /home/script/buildworld/iw-???date run"
12) cd /usr/src pwd
13) mergemaster -p
14) make installworld
15) mergemaster -i ???install everything?
16) exit
17)shutdown -r now
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This should help a bit.

Hello Don!
Thank you for some good help.

My make.conf only had some use.perl stuff.
I added your flags.

Also I've revised my sequence:

cvsup -g -L 2 /etc/cvsupfile \

&& cd /usr/obj \
&& chflags -R noschg * \
&& rm -rf * \

&& cd /usr/src ; make clean \
&& make buildworld \
&& make buildkernel KERNCONF=NINJA \
&& make installkernel KERNCONF=NINJA \
&& make installworld \
&& mergemaster \

And am now ready to give it another go :)

Until you are satisfied that everything works without any
problems at all, please don't use scripts to run the builds.

For instance, your script above lacks a call to ``mergemaster
-p'' before the ``make buildworld'' step, which may be necessary.

That's a call to 'script' to run, telling it where to put the
resulting text file. While it is running, commands are given and
executed. Later, if something goes wrong, or you saw something you
want to check on, you have a record of what happened that you can
look at, and pass on to others, if needed.

Could you explain the logic of running mergemaster -p, when you
have nothing to run it on. /usr/obj was blown away at the beginning
of the buildworld sequence. What are you going to check at that
point? Please take a look at the handbook for the sequence that
things should occur in. I would say look at /usr/src/UPDATING, but
their sequence doesn't include installing the kernel anymore.

He means to run mergemaster -p before make installworld, as in the
instructions quoted at the top of this email and in
/usr/src/UPDATING. Also, the documented sequence *does* include
installing the kernel, so I don't know what you mean there either.

Kris

He may mean that, but it's not what he said. I went by what he said.

From /usr/src/UPDATING:

To rebuild everything and install it on the current system.
-----------------------------------------------------------
# Note: sometimes if you are running current you gotta do more than
# is listed here if you are upgrading from a really old current.

<make sure you have good level 0 dumps>
make buildworld
make kernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
[1]
<reboot in single user> [3]
mergemaster -p [5]
make installworld
make delete-old
mergemaster [4]
<reboot>

To upgrade in-place from 5.x-stable or higher to 6.x-stable
-----------------------------------------------------------
<make sure you have good level 0 dumps>
make buildworld [9]
make kernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE [8]
[1]
<reboot in single user> [3]
mergemaster -p [5]
make installworld
make delete-old
mergemaster -i [4]
<reboot>

I just don't see where it says "make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL.
It used to. That's where I got my original procedure from as the
handbook at the time was somewhat confusing. Now the procedure in the
handbook is better.

Don
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