Installworld failure in /usr/share/locale/

Ruslan Ermilov ru at freebsd.org
Wed Nov 5 12:18:15 PST 2003


On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 08:40:36AM +1300, Jonathan Chen wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 07:14:02PM +0200, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 08:30:35AM -0800, Greg White wrote:
> > > I may have just caught this midmerge, but thought I'd post in case it is
> > > some minor breakage.
> > > 
> > > Cvsup'd last night, started buildkernel/buildworld, and went home.
> > > Tried to installworld this morning, and kept seeing failures with error
> > > code 71. The failures were due to 'install' trying to install files into
> > > directories that did not exist in the target filesystem. The offending
> > > commands:
> > > 
> > > install -C -m 644 -o root -g wheel  zh_CN.eucCN.out
> > > /usr/share/locale/zh_CN.eucCN/LC_CTYPE
> > > install -C -m 644 -o root -g wheel  zh_CN.GB18030.out
> > > /usr/share/locale/zh_CN.GB18030/LC_CTYPE
> > > install -C -m 644 -o root -g wheel  zh_CN.GBK.out
> [...]
> > It happens when you miswrite "installworld" as "install".  Installworld
> > takes care to run a bunch of mtree(8) commands to create all necessary
> > directories.  Of course not if someone had broken the world, in which
> > case we'll be flooded by a bunch of similar reports very soon.  ;-)
> 
> Actually, there *have* been similar reports, and all the do with
> installworld and locale/zh_CN* directory breakage. I'm unsure whether
> it's been fixed yet.
> 
I see that Murray fixed this in etc/mtree/BSD.usr.dist,v 1.188.2.46.


Cheers,
-- 
Ruslan Ermilov		Sysadmin and DBA,
ru at sunbay.com		Sunbay Software Ltd,
ru at FreeBSD.org		FreeBSD committer
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