installworld fails

Ryan Stone rysto32 at gmail.com
Tue Jan 22 13:49:19 UTC 2013


On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 1:24 AM, Jason Evans <jasone at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Jan 21, 2013, at 10:13 PM, AN <andy at neu.net> wrote:
> > FreeBSD FBSD10 10.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT #29 r245766: Tue Jan 22
> 00:49:02 EST 2013     root at FBSD10:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MYKERNEL  amd64
> >
> > Is anyone seeing this?
> >
> > install -l s usr/src/sys /sys
> > install: /sys/sys: Directory not empty
> > *** [distrib-dirs] Error code 71
>
> Yes.  I haven't tracked down the cause, but doing 'rm /sys' prior to
> installworld is an effective workaround.
>
> Jason
>
>
 CC'ing Brooks, who I believe made this change.

It looks as though install is using the semantics of ln -s /usr/src/sys
/sys instead of ln -fs.


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