clarification of cvsup process.

[Bill Moran]

In response to Greg Groth <ggroth at gregs-garage.com>:
> 
> On 6/15/2006 3:02 PM, Bill Moran wrote:
>  > In response to Greg Groth <ggroth at gregs-garage.com>:
>  >
>  >> On 6/15/2006 2:42 PM, Bill Moran wrote:
>  >>  > In response to Greg Groth <ggroth at gregs-garage.com>:

[snip]

>  >> mail# uname -a
>  >> FreeBSD mail.domain.com 6.0-RELEASE-p6 FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE-p6 #1: Tue
>  >> Mar 28 13:46:24 CST 2006
>  >> ggroth at ns1.domain.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
>  >
>  > Are you sure you completed the process successfully?  If you'd had
>  > tag=., this would reports something like 6-STABLE.  If you'd had
>  > 6_0_RELENG, it would report 6.0-RELEASE-p9.
>  >
>  > It looks as if the make install* steps weren't completed.
>  >
> 
> (reiterating my original email for clarification)
> 
> # cd /usr/src
> # make buildworld
> # make buildkernel
> # make installkernel
> # reboot
> 
> After rebooting into single user mode:
> 
> # fsck -p
> # mount -u /
> # mount -a -t ufs
> # swapon -a
> # adjkerntz -i
> # cd /usr/src (I forgot to list this last time around)
> # mergemaster -p
> # make installworld
> # mergemaster
> # reboot
> 
> No errors reported during any of these steps, and each step appears to 
> complete like it's doing exactly what it's supposed to.
> 
> Can you see any steps I missed or overlooked?  Any advice on how to 
> determine where something might have gone wrong?  All of a sudden I'm 
> having this feeling that something might be broken somewhere...

I don't see any missed or incorrect steps here.  Check the files listed
in the advisory to see if the versions you have in /usr/src match those
for 6.0-RELEASE-p9.  It's possible that the cvsup server you used didn't
have all the updates yet.

-- 
Bill Moran
Collaborative Fusion Inc.