Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 11:40:09 -0700 (PDT) From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: misc/52122: make release does not use proper binar Message-ID: <200305151840.h4FIe9PC005244@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR misc/52122; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org>
Cc: John Hay <jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za>, bug-followup@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: misc/52122: make release does not use proper binar
Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 11:30:01 -0700
On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 08:55:52PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 09:58:44AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> > On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 06:31:42PM +0200, John Hay wrote:
> > > One reason why it isn't that useful inside the chroot area, is that
> > > if your running kernel and the newly built bits gets too much out of
> > > sync you will need to update the machine in any case, so you will
> > > end up with "new" binaries and a kernel on the machine and so it
> > > is a "waste" to recompile world inside the chroot area.
> >
> > In this case the release died near the end (release.9 target). It was
> > easy to update the running kernel and reboot. Now we wanted to restart
> > the release w/o starting from scratch. This release build included ports
> > README's and Docs, and thus takes a very long time to build. To not have
> > to start from scratch, I did "chroot ${CHROOT} /bin/sh" and then ran "rm
> > /tmp/.world_done ; /mk" which should have restarted the release build and
> > done the mimimum work to finish the release. It didn't because of the
> > cross-release commit that removed the installworld w/in the ${CHROOT}.
> > This bit not only me, but another person also building an Alpha snapshot.
> >
> Now you know what to do -- you have to buildworld at the minimum
I did build world. But you're being vauge -- which world??? Give a list
of specific steps.
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