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Date:      Fri, 01 Nov 2002 11:28:25 -0500 (EST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.org>, Jake Burkholder <jake@locore.ca>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/release/sparc64 boot_crunch.conf
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20021101112825.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20021101155855.GA5673@sunbay.com>

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On 01-Nov-2002 Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 10:29:37AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
>> 
>> On 01-Nov-2002 Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
>> > ru          2002/11/01 00:14:30 PST
>> > 
>> >   Modified files:
>> >     release/sparc64      boot_crunch.conf 
>> >   Log:
>> >   sparc64 does not yet support sysinstall(8).
>> 
>> That's really odd considering I just installed on an ultra60
>> this morning using sysinstall off of a CD I built from make
>> release yesterday.
>> 
> 
> On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 10:45:48AM -0500, Jake Burkholder wrote:
>> Apparently, On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 12:14:30AM -0800,
>>      Ruslan Ermilov said words to the effect of;
>> 
>> > ru          2002/11/01 00:14:30 PST
>> > 
>> >   Modified files:
>> >     release/sparc64      boot_crunch.conf 
>> >   Log:
>> >   sparc64 does not yet support sysinstall(8).
>> 
>> Please try it before making assumptions.
>> 
> I did.  cross-release on i386 died because it tried to
> run the sparc64 binary, rtermcap, which is the build-tool
> for sysinstall.  It is actually the bug in the "make
> release" (object directories are created _after_ the
> build-tools are), but it's normally not visible because
> object directories are already built during the buildworld
> stage of "make release".  In this case, sysinstall is not
> built on sparc64, according to usr.sbin/sysinstall/Makefile,
> revision 1.236.

Look, people are working on getting normal native releases to
work right now.  Cross-releases can wait until that is fixed
since native releases are the priority.  Please wait to test
cross releases until native releases are working.  As it
stands now sparc64 looks very probable to be a tier-1 platform
come 5.0, and your commit broke that.

-- 

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