Re: NFS installkernel broke with "make: don't know how to make bsd.README. Stop"

From: David Wolfskill (david_at_catwhisker.org)
Date: 08/22/04

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    OK; with a lot of help from Marcel Moolenaar (thanks!!!), it turns out
    that the kernel configuration file (/usr/src/sys/i386/conf/JANUS) didn't
    exist -- more accurately, there was no file with that path on janus.

    Here's how that happened, and why it used to work:

    My /usr/src is a CVS working directory; it's repo is my local private
    mirror. I also keep my kernel configs in CVS, but I don't pollute the
    FreeBSD repo for that; instead, I create symlinks in
    /usr/src/sys/i386/conf pointing to kernel config files that live in
    /usr/local/src/kernels -- more specifically, they pointe dto
    /usr/local/src/kernels/stable/{BUNRAB,JANUS,FREEBEAST,LAPTOP_30W...}.

    Accordingly, I had a dummy (empty) file with the path
    /usr/local/src/kernels/stable/JANUS on janus -- janus, after all, is not
    the machine where the kernel gets built, so the contents of the file are
    not especially relevant at install time -- just (as Marcel pointed out)
    existence.

    But now that RELENG_5 is moving toward -STABLE, I thought I should
    clarify the names a bit, so on the machines where I build kernels, I
    changed "stable/" to "FreeBSD-4/" and "current/" to "FreeBSD-5/" under
    /usr/local/src/kernels. And I changed the symlinks under
    /usr/src/sys/i386/conf to match.

    Now, bunrab runs an automounter, and bunrab:/usr/local/src points
    to the automounter mount point for freebeast. Thus, when there was
    a reference to /usr/local/src/kernels/FreeBSD-4/BUNRAB, it pointed to
    the real config file.

    However, janus does not run an automounter (by intent). Rather,
    back in December 2001, I had created that emtpy
    /usr/local/src/kernels/stabe/JANUS file so the "make installkernel"
    would work, but naturally, I had forgotten about it by now. :-{

    And we now see:
    janus(4.10-S)[1] uname -a
    FreeBSD janus.catwhisker.org 4.10-STABLE FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE #74: Sun Aug 22 06:02:38 PDT 2004 root@freebeast.catwhisker.org:/common/S1/obj/usr/src/sys/JANUS i386
    janus(4.10-S)[2]

    Marcel, I owe you a beverage of choice. :-)

    [And some folks claim that open source software doesn't have enough
    support! Ha!]

    Peace,
    david 

    -- 
David H. Wolfskill				david@catwhisker.org
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