Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 11:31:40 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: John Hay <jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za> Cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: misc/52122: make release does not use proper binar Message-ID: <20030515183140.GB28984@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20030515181350.GA78460@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za> References: <200305151600.h4FG0Uwt088142@freefall.freebsd.org> <20030515163142.GA75538@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za> <20030515165844.GA20271@dragon.nuxi.com> <20030515181350.GA78460@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za>
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On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 08:13:50PM +0200, John Hay 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.
>
> Maybe the issue is more of documentation? I know hindsight makes it easy,
> but an installworld inside the chroot area or "world DESTDIR=/chrootarea"
> should have been enough to get the binaries updated.
It is, and was. The problem is restarting with /mk used to do this for
you. It stopped and the only documentation was hidding in the commit
log.
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-- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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