Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 08:32:55 +0200 From: Manolis Kiagias <manolis@FreeBSD.org> To: Trever <anti_spamsys@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bad source in the distro iso's Message-ID: <4AFE4F17.6050007@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <801850.20206.qm@web113202.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> References: <801850.20206.qm@web113202.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
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Trever wrote: > I noticed in 7.2 that the /usr/src installed from the ISO downloads would not build without first sup'ing for a few updates. (disc1.iso's) > > I notice in the 8.0RC2&3 that some of the source files are corrupted. > > Not a media issue, checksum's have always been confirmed good. > > Is this normal, for the packaged source to be "bad"? > > One of the nice things about BSD is that it comes with everything to build itself, but if the source won't build without first updating... > > Just curious. > > Trever > > There must be something wrong at your end. I routinely run make buildworld / make release using -RELEASE sources and never had any problems. Are you sure you are installing *all* the sources, both kernel and world? It could be that something goes wrong during decompression, though I suspect this would happen to other files as well leading to a non-working system.
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