From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 19 14:45:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from chumbly.math.missouri.edu (chumbly.math.missouri.edu [128.206.72.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54C39150A5 for ; Thu, 19 Aug 1999 14:45:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rich@chumbly.math.missouri.edu) Received: (from rich@localhost) by chumbly.math.missouri.edu (8.9.1a/8.9.1) id QAA26285; Thu, 19 Aug 1999 16:43:52 -0500 (CDT) From: Rich Winkel Message-Id: <199908192143.QAA26285@chumbly.math.missouri.edu> Subject: Re: distributing STABLE using Installworld over NFS To: aphor@ripco.com Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 16:43:52 -0500 (CDT) Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <37BB841C.951EDCAB@ripco.NOSPAM.com> from "Jeremy McMillan" at Aug 18, 99 11:12:12 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG According to Jeremy McMillan: > There *must* be make installworld dependancies outside of the /usr/src and > /usr/obj filesystems. Pulling an installworld (or install for that matter) > from a remote machine's /usr/src/ and /usr/obj is broken. Pushing an > installworld to the target machine by mounting it's filesystem is working. > That tells me there's something necessary but unavailable when you try to > make installworld from the older box. There's one "outside" dependency I know of. Some of the builds (such as perl) create symbolic links in the obj dir which have absolute rather than relative paths into the src directory. If, on the build server, /usr/src & /usr/obj are symbolic links to directories elsewhere (which in my case is true because I wanted to do the build on a softupdate'd disk and I'm not using softupdates on /usr) you'll run into problems installing from an nfs client if the "elsewhere" doesn't exist on the client. In my case I had to create a symbolic link /u2 -> usr on the client, then everything went smoothly. Rich To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message