Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:46:00 -0400 From: Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org> To: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net> Cc: John Birrell <jb@FreeBSD.org>, FreeBSD current mailing list <current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: problem: world boot strapping from 7-C to HEAD with CDDL on sparc64? Message-ID: <20080623214600.GA51757@sandvine.com> In-Reply-To: <20080619151421.Q83875@maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net> References: <20080618085948.X83875@maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net> <20080618224531.GA20863@what-creek.com> <20080618225126.V83875@maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net> <20080618230633.GB20863@what-creek.com> <20080619151421.Q83875@maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net>
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On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 03:14:45PM +0000, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: > On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, John Birrell wrote: > > >On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:53:02PM +0000, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: > >>On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, John Birrell wrote: > >> > >>>On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 09:06:41AM +0000, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: > >>>>Hi, > >>>> > >>>>I am having a bootstrapping problem on sparc64 with CDDL but cannot > >>>>find anything in UPDATING for that. > >>>> > >>>>See: > >>>>http://sources.zabbadoz.net/freebsd/tmp/sparc64-compile-world.txt > >>>> > >>>>Should that be documented? > >>> > >>>Is this an up-to-date RELENG_7 system? If so, I think it should have the > >> > >>check the text file references. It has an uname -a in the first line. > >> > >>It is a 7-CURRENT from 2006. UPDATING says we support updating from 6 > >>or newer so something is wrong. Either bootstrapping or UPDATING. I > >>guess it's the former... > > > >I thought our policy was that you had to update to the latest on a RELENG_X > >branch before updating to the next branch or to current. > > UPDATING says: > > 20080123: > To upgrade to -current after this date, you must be running > FreeBSD not older than 6.0-RELEASE. Upgrading to -current > from 5.x now requires a stop over at RELENG_6 or RELENG_7 systems. I agree and think we should document the minimum release required for building CURRENT. At the very least we shouldn't continue to suggest that 6.0-RELEASE is sufficient, if we're not going to address the bootstrapping issue. (I noticed that UPDATING also still has a section "To upgrade in-place from 5.x-stable to current," and many obsolete entries, and so could do with a good cleanup.) All that said, I'd really like to be able to continue building head on RELENG_6. (In my case I have a rather fast RELENG_6 box so I have been doing my pre-commit testing there.) Do the changes we're discussing here involve anything that makes that difficult? Regards, Ed
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