6.3 stable install world failing

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 06:39:52PM +0400, Igor Pokrovsky wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 09:56:38AM -0400, Larry Baird wrote:
> > Anybody else having problem installing world on 6.3 stable?
> > 
> > During "Making hierarchy", I see:
> > 
> > mtree -eU  -f /usr/src/etc/mtree/BSD.usr.dist -p /usr
> > share/locale/nb_NO.ISO8859-1 changed
> >         type expected dir found link
> > share/locale/nb_NO.ISO8859-15 changed
> >         type expected dir found link
> > share/locale/nn_NO.ISO8859-1 changed
> >         type expected dir found link
> > share/locale/nn_NO.ISO8859-15 changed
> >         type expected dir found link
> > mtree -eU  -f /usr/src/etc/mtree/BSD.include.dist  -p /usr/include
> > 
> > 
> > Then during actual install I get:
> > 
> > install -o root  -g wheel -m 444  nb_NO.ISO8859-1.out  /usr/share/locale/nb_NO.ISO8859-1/LC_TIME
> > install: /usr/share/locale/nb_NO.ISO8859-1/LC_TIME: No such file or directory
> > *** Error code 71
> > 
> > Stop in /usr/src/share/timedef.
> 
> Yes, I experienced this situation too. Looks like mtree file for usr
> filesystem is outdated. To successfully proceed with installation I removed
> those symlinks and made directories with the same names.

des@ recently admitted to botching this -- said change was intended for
RELENG_7 and HEAD, and does not work properly on RELENG_6.  I think a
commit was put in place to fix it, but I'd have to dig through commit
logs.

CC'ing des@ who can confirm/deny.

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