Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 15:03:42 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: Bryan Drewery <bryan@shatow.net> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, Glen Barber <gjb@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, David Chisnall <theraven@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r261031 - in head: . etc usr.sbin/etcupdate usr.sbin/mergemaster Message-ID: <201401231503.42671.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20140123194841.GA39296@admin.xzibition.com> References: <201401221659.s0MGxrc7056036@svn.freebsd.org> <201401231439.14819.jhb@freebsd.org> <20140123194841.GA39296@admin.xzibition.com>
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On Thursday, January 23, 2014 2:48:41 pm Bryan Drewery wrote: > On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 02:39:14PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > > On Thursday, January 23, 2014 10:42:36 am David Chisnall wrote: > > > On 22 Jan 2014, at 22:36, Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > > > > > > > It needs to use the build host version, because using (for example) > > > > powerpc resulting binary won't work on and amd64 system. > > > > > > If it's used as part of the build, then it should be part of the toolchain > > target and we should be using the version built there. > > > > 'make distribute' is not a normal part of the build (it's not part of > > buildworld or installworld). Both mergemaster and etcupdate only run it > > after an installworld has been performed, in which case an up-to-date > > services_mkdb should already be installed. > > > > Bryan, what are you running 'make distribute' for? Is this to populate > > a new jail from a world build? > > Yes, poudriere uses this to create jails. It runs: > > export TARGET_ARCH=... > make buildworld > make installworld DESTDIR=... > make distrib-dirs DESTDIR=... DB_FROM_SRC=1 > make distribution DESTDIR=... > > > No mergemaster or etc-update is ran, we just install all of the > defaults. Yes, but you are attemping to install a newer jail than the host, and strictly speaking that isn't supported. (Rather, we only guarantee that a jail will work so long as its world is older or equal in age to the host.) All that said, for stable branches I intend to MFC the new flags to services_mkdb long before possibly merging the change to turn it on in 'make distribution' -- John Baldwin
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