Problem Building World
Cyber Dog
cyberdog at nycap.rr.com
Tue Nov 16 03:44:14 GMT 2004
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Hill [mailto:chris at monochrome.org]
> Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 6:49 PM
> To: Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
> Cc: Cyber Dog; freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Problem Building World
>
> On Mon, 15 Nov 2004, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote:
>
> > Cyber Dog wrote:
> >
> >> Hello,
> >> I'm working with a server currently running FreeBSD 4.6. Clearly it
> >> hasn't been updated too recently, and I've made it my goal to bring it
> into
> >> the present. This would be my first time rebuilding a FreeBSD OS. I
> >> started out by clearing out /usr/src, and doing a fresh cvsup with the
> >> following supfile:
> >>
> >>
> > <snip>
>
> [more snip]
>
> >> Stop in /usr/src.
> >> [root at hostname src]#
> >>
> >> As you can see, something's amiss here. I don't understand why there
> would
> >> be any inconsistencies...as I said; I did a fresh CVSup (multiple times
> in
> >> fact). Any help would be greatly appreciated!
> >>
> >> -
> >> Matt
> >>
> >
> > Hi, Matt:
> >
> > I'm certainly not an expert here, but it seems like
> > it's an awful long way from 4.6 to 4.10.
> > Have you tried an intermediate update, say, 4.6 to 4.7
> > [or 4.8]?
> >
> > So many changes occur over time; and by the time 4.10
> > came out, 4.6 was very old*; so it's entirely possible that
> > you might need to do a cvsup/buildworld routine to
> > something a little closer to your box's date prior to
> > attempting (and having any success) with 4.10. You
> > might try changing the 'cvs tag' in your supfile to
> > RELENG_4_7 or RELENG_4_8 and going again....
> >
> > Kevin Kinsey
> >
> > *and probably past it's "EOL". Whether or not, I'm sure
> > it'd be nice if it _would_ build, but it's possible that the
> > engineering team was under no compunction to test
> > a migration from 4.6 directly to 4.10 at the time 4.10 was
> > being tested for release, and therefore it wasn't (tested) ...
> > like I said, I'm no expert, but a 'stepping stone' approach
> > to the problem might work....
>
> I did this exact upgrade (4.6 to 4.10) a while back, and I can endorse
> the 'stepping stone' procedure. I did a cvsup and rebuild from 4.6 to
> 4.7, 4.7 to 4.8, etc. until 4.10. It's tedious and time-consuming, but
> the whole thing went surprisingly smoothly.
>
> --
> Chris Hill chris at monochrome.org
> ** [ Busy Expunging <|> ]
I typo'd my original email, I'm starting with FreeBSD 4.7, not 6.
Regardless, your suggestion made sense of stepping stoning the procedure...
unfortunately I got the exact same results. I CVSup'd 4.6, cleared obj, and
did a new build world. Same place, same error.
-
Matt
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