From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 19 21:24:58 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9FBA16A421 for ; Sat, 19 May 2007 21:24:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bc979@lafn.org) Received: from zoot.lafn.org (zoot.lafn.ORG [206.117.18.6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B972613C4B7 for ; Sat, 19 May 2007 21:24:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bc979@lafn.org) Received: from [10.0.1.2] (pool-71-109-158-80.lsanca.dsl-w.verizon.net [71.109.158.80]) (authenticated bits=0) by zoot.lafn.org (8.13.6/8.13.4) with ESMTP id l4JLBxfW053702 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Sat, 19 May 2007 14:12:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bc979@lafn.org) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.3) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed To: FreeBSD Stable From: Doug Hardie Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 14:11:59 -0700 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.3) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88.7/3270/Sat May 19 07:19:58 2007 on zoot.lafn.org X-Virus-Status: Clean Subject: installworld in 6.2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 21:24:59 -0000 I have found what I believe is a "bug" in installworld for FreeBSD 6.2. I do not believe this was in 6.1 as I would have encountered the same problem there. I run a number of production servers. I maintain the source on one development machine where it is built and tested. To upgrade a production server I NIS mount /usr/src and /usr/ obj then run the commands per UPDATING. The problem occurs now because my development machine has /usr on a slice on the same disk as /. However, /usr/obj is a soft link to /usr2 which is a separate drive. There was not enough space on the primary drive for everything and I really don't need to backup /usr/obj as it can easily be rebuilt. During make installworld when it gets to the /boot section I get an error that it cannot make a library in /usr2/obj/src..... Everything quits at that point. My production machines do not have a /usr2 filesystem. In order to get installworld to work I had to add a soft link on the production server of /usr2 pointing to /usr. Then installworld completed properly. I don't believe that link should be needed.