Re: installworld error (makewhatis signal 11)

On Mon, 31 Aug 2026 16:30:07 +0200
Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> Tomoaki AOKI <junchoon@dec.sakura.ne.jp> writes:
> > It would be nice if UPDATING has an entry whenever clean builds are
> > required, with the reason why for future records.
> 
> That would be a huge step backward since our goal is to never need a
> clean build.  We have a script (depend-cleanup.sh) which is supposed to
> automatically clean either part of or the whole object tree when needed.
> 
> DES
> -- 
> Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des@FreeBSD.org

If it's always maintained to work flawlessly just-in-time.

This would be the case depend-cleanup.sh couldn't catch up
with the changes in-tree. My understanding is that this script
cannot "always automatically" find where to cleanup without
human editing.

And if the corresponding changes in-tree is heavily conditional and
complexed that take time to fixup depend-cleanup.sh for it, but
the change in-tree itself is somehow urgent (i.e., security fix),
there can be time window of breakage.

At least in such a cases (offending commit itself doesn't include
fixes for depend-cleanup.sh), UPDATING entry would be wanted.

Regards.

-- 
Tomoaki AOKI    <junchoon@dec.sakura.ne.jp>