Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2018 10:56:57 -0700 From: Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Success updating stable/11 to /12; a couple things to note Message-ID: <1545933417.78877.82.camel@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20181227163046.GD22302@albert.catwhisker.org> References: <20181227135314.GW22302@albert.catwhisker.org> <1545927189.78877.80.camel@freebsd.org> <20181227163046.GD22302@albert.catwhisker.org>
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On Thu, 2018-12-27 at 08:30 -0800, David Wolfskill wrote: > On Thu, Dec 27, 2018 at 09:13:09AM -0700, Ian Lepore wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2018-12-27 at 05:53 -0800, David Wolfskill wrote: > > > > > > * I found that I actually needed to create the ntpd user on the > > > running system prior to "make installworld" -- having run > > > "mergemaster -U" against the target (DESTDIF) was insufficient. > > The correct update sequence involves running mergemaster twice, > > once > > with the -p option, then again later without it. It's detailed at > > the > > bottom of UPDATING. People get in the habit of skipping the -p step > > because it's only really needed once every few years, such as when > > a > > new user is added to the base system. > > > > -- Ian > > .... > Yes, but the one after "make installworld" isn't likely to affect the > "make installworld". :-) > > The sequence of events: > > mount -u -r / > mount -u -r /usr > mount /dev/ada0s1a /S1 > mount /dev/ada0s1d /S1/usr > mount -u -w /S1 > mount -u -w /S1/usr > ln -fhs /var /S1/var > mount -o ro freebeast:/usr/src /usr/src > mount -o ro freebeast:/usr/obj /usr/obj > id > mount > cd /usr/src > uname -a > date > make LD=ld.lld installkernel DESTDIR=/S1 > date > mergemaster -U -u 0022 -p -D /S1 > date > rm -fr /S1/usr/include.old > date > mv -f /S1/usr/include /S1/usr/include.old > date > rm -fr /S1/usr/share/man > date > make installworld DESTDIR=/S1 > date > mergemaster -F -U -u 0022 -i -D /S1 > date > make delete-old DESTDIR=/S1 > date > date > df -k > date > > > My point was that running "mergemaster -U" against the new image > (/S1, > in the case above) is not sufficient for "make installworld > DESTDIR=/S!" > to work: it is necessary that the *running* system be aware of the > "ntpd" user (I presume, to allow ownership of files to be set by the > "ntpd" name, vs. the numeric "123"). > > Peace, > david I must have missed the part where you were using DESTDIR= during the install. In that case, the right magic is to add DB_FROM_SRC=yes to the make installworld command. There were a couple proposals to automate that somehow, but I didn't see anything proposed that didn't basically subvert the entire purpose of that check for whether the user exists. -- Ian
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