make distribution fails with call to cap_mkdb

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Wed Jul 6 16:25:50 GMT 2005


On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 04:06:45PM +0000, jdyke wrote:
> Kris Kennaway wrote:
> >On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 12:33:35PM +0000, jdyke wrote:
> >
> >>Trying to rebuild a jail and am getting an error on `make distribution`
> >>I was able to do this when the server was at 5.3-RELEASE without error, 
> >>but since upgrading to 5.4-RELEASE it continusiously fails.
> >>
> >>The error is:
> >>cap_mkdb: illegal option -- l
> >>usage: cap_mkdb [-v] [-f outfile] file [file ...]
> >>
> >>which seems to originate from the command:
> >>cap_mkdb -l /slaves/jail/master/etc/login.conf
> >>
> >>Did this command ever or recently take a -l option?
> >
> >
> >It does on 6.0, so it looks like you've somehow updated your sources
> >to FreeBSD-CURRENT.
> >
> hmmmm. sweet. thanks. i'll check that out.  my cvs-supfile is
> *default release=cvs tag=.

Yep, that'll do it.

> and my uname -r is
> 5.4-RELEASE-p2
> 
> did i mess that i up?

Not yet, but you would have done if you'd built and installed a new
world or kernel from those sources.

Kris
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