Installworld failure in /usr/share/locale/

[Jonathan Chen]

On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 07:14:02PM +0200, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 08:30:35AM -0800, Greg White wrote:
> > I may have just caught this midmerge, but thought I'd post in case it is
> > some minor breakage.
> > 
> > Cvsup'd last night, started buildkernel/buildworld, and went home.
> > Tried to installworld this morning, and kept seeing failures with error
> > code 71. The failures were due to 'install' trying to install files into
> > directories that did not exist in the target filesystem. The offending
> > commands:
> > 
> > install -C -m 644 -o root -g wheel  zh_CN.eucCN.out
> > /usr/share/locale/zh_CN.eucCN/LC_CTYPE
> > install -C -m 644 -o root -g wheel  zh_CN.GB18030.out
> > /usr/share/locale/zh_CN.GB18030/LC_CTYPE
> > install -C -m 644 -o root -g wheel  zh_CN.GBK.out
[...]
> It happens when you miswrite "installworld" as "install".  Installworld
> takes care to run a bunch of mtree(8) commands to create all necessary
> directories.  Of course not if someone had broken the world, in which
> case we'll be flooded by a bunch of similar reports very soon.  ;-)

Actually, there *have* been similar reports, and all the do with
installworld and locale/zh_CN* directory breakage. I'm unsure whether
it's been fixed yet.

Cheers.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz>
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