lzma support in `stable' has potential issues

[Garrett Cooper]

On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 12:37 AM, Xin LI <delphij at delphij.net> wrote:
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> On 2010/05/23 23:58, Garrett Cooper wrote:
>> Hi Martin and Tim,
>>       I recently wiped off my Lenovo again to get a fresh install of FreeBSD on it, and started out at 8.0-RELEASE (it's the media that I had on hand at the time). Upgrading to 8-STABLE appears to be problematic though.
>>       On a few different occasions I ran into issues doing the following:
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> Are you using make buildworld?  Presumbly they should have been created
> by mtree and I've verified that the corresponding change was merged
> properly.

I've tried buildworld, as well as one one-off makes I showed above.
Only after I hacked things (just did simple mkdir(1)s and make
installs) so that lzma could actually install and set WITHOUT_RESCUE
(syscons was getting hung up on ncurses symbols), did buildworld
actually go through.

Thanks,
-Garrett