Date: Sat, 6 May 2000 09:19:06 -0700 (PDT) From: "J. Goodleaf" <goodleaf@home.com> To: Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@neomedia.it> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help! make installworld error; addendum to Asante NIC Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005060914490.19960-100000@C702312-A.sttln1.wa.home.com> In-Reply-To: <20000506.16112900@bartequi.ottodomain.org>
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Thanks again. My supfile is as follows. Cribbed it straight from the sample file in the handbook. Have I missed something subtle? -J # *default host=cvsup2.FreeBSD.org *default base=/usr *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4 *default delete use-rel-suffix *default compress src-all ports-all tag=. cvs-crypto # On Sat, 6 May 2000, Salvo Bartolotta wrote: > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< > > On 5/6/00, 2:12:08 PM, "J. Goodleaf" <goodleaf@home.com> wrote regarding > Re: Help! make installworld error; addendum to Asante NIC: > > > > Thanks for your help. Per your (and Sheldon's) suggestions, the make > > -DNOINFO installworld worked fine. > > > But it's still a little confusing. I've been on Freebsd 4 for a while. > I > > started from scratch too, so this particular machine has never had > > anything but v4 on it. I successfully CVSup'd and used make buildworld > & > > installworld previously. So it is not clear to me why I developed a > > problem that should be seen by upgraders from 3.4. (It had never > occurred > > to me to look in the UPDATING file for this reason.) > > > Could it be related to ports? Since the previous success, I've > installed a > > slew of ports (which have also been cvsup'd) relating to Gnome, the > text > > editor, the calendar etc. Not much else though. > > > Hypotheses? > > > -J > > > Ok, hypotheses fingo ... :-) > > If you have correctly updated your sources (tag=RELENG_4 in your > supfile), this error should not have occurred. AFAIK, the error > shouldn't be related to ports, either. > > It seems that nobody else has met it so far under 4.0-S. Which > confirms that the problem should not be related to the 4-STABLE > sources. > > *If* all of the above statements hold, your error **might** be related > to a subtle updating issue. Whether or not this is the case, you > might want to have a look at the FAQ found at > http://www.polstra.com/projects/freeware/CVSup/faq.html ; in > particular, you might want to read the list=cvs:<appropriate_tag> > considerations. > > Nothing else comes to mind at the moment. Probably somebody more > knowledgeable will provide a complete and definitive answer. He or > she is welcome :-) > > Best regards, > Salvo > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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