From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 4 01:48:54 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B851116A4CE for ; Fri, 4 Mar 2005 01:48:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp.owt.com (smtp.owt.com [204.118.6.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B55C43D7D for ; Fri, 4 Mar 2005 01:48:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from [207.41.94.233] (owt-207-41-94-233.owt.com [207.41.94.233]) by smtp.owt.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id j241m5t3012777; Thu, 3 Mar 2005 17:48:05 -0800 From: Kent Stewart To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Aaron Nichols Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 17:48:53 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: <200503031439.16607.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200503031748.53282.kstewart@owt.com> Subject: Re: RELENG_5_3 to RELENG_5 make installworld fails X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 01:48:54 -0000 On Thursday 03 March 2005 03:26 pm, Aaron Nichols wrote: > On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 14:39:16 -0800, Kent Stewart wrote: > > You missed a step. Your system clock is off and that makes the > > installworld try to use touch. Set your system clock and you may > > have to remake your world but it should install. > > > > Kent > > Infact it was off - can you give me some detail as to why that > matters? Not that I doubt that having my system clock set to a date 8 > months prior to the date of files in cvs might cause a problem - but > I'm curious about the details. If you can even point me at a URL and > I'll read for myself - I'm just curious. Make is used to build files that are out of date. When the buildworld created the file, it was older than the files you downloaded using cvsup. So, it was created out of date and installworld thought it needed to rebuild it. Touch isn't needed in the installworld and it fails. Kent > > If that was the problem (buildworld happenning as I type) then thank > you and my apologies for the oversight. New system, didn't bother to > make sure the BIOS date was right and ntp wasn't yet setup. > > Thanks, > Aaron > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html