installworld fails

Brooks Davis brooks at freebsd.org
Tue Jan 22 16:02:39 UTC 2013


On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 08:49:12AM -0500, Ryan Stone wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 1:24 AM, Jason Evans <jasone at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Jan 21, 2013, at 10:13 PM, AN <andy at neu.net> wrote:
> > > FreeBSD FBSD10 10.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT #29 r245766: Tue Jan 22
> > 00:49:02 EST 2013     root at FBSD10:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MYKERNEL  amd64
> > >
> > > Is anyone seeing this?
> > >
> > > install -l s usr/src/sys /sys
> > > install: /sys/sys: Directory not empty
> > > *** [distrib-dirs] Error code 71
> >
> > Yes.  I haven't tracked down the cause, but doing 'rm /sys' prior to
> > installworld is an effective workaround.
> >
> > Jason
> >
> >
>  CC'ing Brooks, who I believe made this change.
> 
> It looks as though install is using the semantics of ln -s /usr/src/sys
> /sys instead of ln -fs.

Sorry about this breakage I'm testing a fix now.  The problem is
actually that install implemented the behavior of ln -sf and not ln -sfh.

-- Brooks


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