Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2017 13:39:31 -0500 From: lankfordandrew@charter.net To: "'Eugene Grosbein'" <eugen@grosbein.net>, "'freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Root partition and usrland on one slice, /usr/local ports and src on another Message-ID: <YifX1w0072NQztg01ifXLH@charter.net>
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It's been quite a while since I've tried a rebuild, but I think the problems appeared early when gcc and gas and dependencies were being built. I tried just symlinks, then different settings of the build variables, and (IIRC) enabling clang. Perhaps I could start fresh with 11.1, but then perhaps placing everything on one slice is the most straightforward solution. Andrew Lankford -----------------------------------------From: "Eugene Grosbein" To: "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" Cc: Sent: 11-Nov-2017 17:24:25 +0000 Subject: Re: Root partition and usrland on one slice, /usr/local ports and src on another 11.11.2017 22:50, lankfordandrew@charter.net пишет: > When I installed FreeBSD 10 on an old laptop, I wanted to merge both > the root partition heirarchy (kernel /bin /sbin etc) and the rest of > Fbsd usr-land together onto one slice. I like upgrading from source, > but I do that more frequently with ports than the OS-proper. When I > need to boot up single user, it seems rather quaint these days (at > least for a laptop user) to have to mount /usr in order to get > reasonably the functionality from applications that use shared > libraries (vi, man pages, etc). The likelyhood that I'm going to fall > back on a serial port and an ASR-33 tty are nil. > > So what I'd like to do is put the entire freebsd system on one fairly > small, pristine slice, but put the more bloated and ephemeral src, > ports, /usr/local, /home portions on one big slice. I tried symlinks > between "/src" or "/usr/src" and "/usr/ports" and tweaking some build > variables, but it seemed like something always breaks in some bizarre > way whenever I tried to rebuild world. I guess a lot of the strange > behavior showed up in /src/contrib and the gnu licensed side of the > build system. Can anyone suggest some docs on /src and ports, > specifically for what I'm trying to do besides "man src"? I do that for years for eight major releases at least and have no problems making symlinks /usr/src -> /usr/local/src, /usr/obj -> /usr/local/obj, /usr/ports -> /usr/local/ports. What kind of problems do you have while building world and why do you think that problems are due to symlinks? Eugene Grosbein
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