problem: world boot strapping from 7-C to HEAD with CDDL on
sparc64?
Ed Maste
emaste at freebsd.org
Mon Jun 23 21:58:05 UTC 2008
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 03:14:45PM +0000, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, John Birrell wrote:
>
> >On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:53:02PM +0000, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
> >>On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, John Birrell wrote:
> >>
> >>>On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 09:06:41AM +0000, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
> >>>>Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>>I am having a bootstrapping problem on sparc64 with CDDL but cannot
> >>>>find anything in UPDATING for that.
> >>>>
> >>>>See:
> >>>>http://sources.zabbadoz.net/freebsd/tmp/sparc64-compile-world.txt
> >>>>
> >>>>Should that be documented?
> >>>
> >>>Is this an up-to-date RELENG_7 system? If so, I think it should have the
> >>
> >>check the text file references. It has an uname -a in the first line.
> >>
> >>It is a 7-CURRENT from 2006. UPDATING says we support updating from 6
> >>or newer so something is wrong. Either bootstrapping or UPDATING. I
> >>guess it's the former...
> >
> >I thought our policy was that you had to update to the latest on a RELENG_X
> >branch before updating to the next branch or to current.
>
> UPDATING says:
>
> 20080123:
> To upgrade to -current after this date, you must be running
> FreeBSD not older than 6.0-RELEASE. Upgrading to -current
> from 5.x now requires a stop over at RELENG_6 or RELENG_7 systems.
I agree and think we should document the minimum release required for
building CURRENT. At the very least we shouldn't continue to suggest
that 6.0-RELEASE is sufficient, if we're not going to address the
bootstrapping issue.
(I noticed that UPDATING also still has a section "To upgrade in-place
from 5.x-stable to current," and many obsolete entries, and so could
do with a good cleanup.)
All that said, I'd really like to be able to continue building head on
RELENG_6. (In my case I have a rather fast RELENG_6 box so I have been
doing my pre-commit testing there.) Do the changes we're discussing
here involve anything that makes that difficult?
Regards,
Ed
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