cvsup 5.3 release gets incomplete release

[Donald J. O'Neill]

On Sunday 07 November 2004 09:00 am, listmail wrote:
> Hello -
>
> Running a current 5.2.1 machine, I attempted to get release 5.3
> via cvsup. When
> it was finished, I found that  among other things, the file
> UPDATING did not exist
> in /usr/src and
>
> "make [ world | buildworld \ ... ]"
>
>  bombed out with
>
> "don't know how to make [world | buildworld | ...]"
>

# cd /usr/src
# make buildworld 

> (missing Makefile?)
>
> mergemaster bombs out as well.
> I've deleted the entire /usr/src and tried again using both
> tag=5_3_RELEASE and tag=.
> I've read and re-read the handbook, and looked at the archives
> without results.
>
> Thus I have two questions:
> 1) What am I doing wrong?  (Or am I ?)
> 2) What's with the files ending in ",v"?
>
> The supfile used was as apperase below:
>
> *default tags=5_3_RELEASE

use:
 *default tag=RELENG_5_3_0_RELEASE
 or
 *default tag=RELENG_5_3
 or, if you want stable:
 *default tag=RELENG_5

> *default host=cvsup.at.FreeBSD.org

Are you in Austria? Europe?
> *default prefix=/usr
> *default base=/usr/local/etc/cvsup

Try: 
 *default base=/usr

> *default release=cvs delete use-rel-suffix compress

If you have a broadband connection, you could use:
 *default release=cvs
 *default delete use-rel-suffix

> src-all
>
> The directory of the resulting /usr/src looks like:
>
> drwxr-xr-x    2 root  wheel     512 Nov  6 22:44 Attic
> -r--r--r--    1 root  wheel   16259 Oct 24 13:31 COPYRIGHT,v
> -r--r--r--    1 root  wheel   37071 Oct 24 13:31 MAINTAINERS,v
> -r--r--r--    1 root  wheel  279044 Nov  5 21:14 Makefile,v
> -r--r--r--    1 root  wheel  367347 Nov  5 21:14 Makefile.inc1,v
> -r--r--r--    1 root  wheel   26634 Oct 24 13:31 README,v
> -r--r--r--    1 root  wheel  432204 Nov  4 13:12 UPDATING,v
> -r--r--r--    1 root  wheel   23392 Oct 24 13:31 UPDATING.64BTT,v
> drwxr-xr-x   39 root  wheel    1024 Nov  6 22:45 bin
> drwxr-xr-x   69 root  wheel    1536 Nov  6 23:17 contrib
> drwxr-xr-x    9 root  wheel     512 Nov  6 23:21 crypto
> drwxr-xr-x   35 root  wheel    1024 Nov  6 23:22 eBones
> drwxr-xr-x   25 root  wheel    2048 Nov  6 23:22 etc
> drwxr-xr-x   45 root  wheel    1024 Nov  6 23:23 games
> drwxr-xr-x    9 root  wheel     512 Nov  6 23:29 gnu
> drwxr-xr-x    7 root  wheel    2048 Nov  6 23:30 include
> -r-xr-xr-x    1 root  wheel   13820 Oct 24 13:31
> installworld_newk,v -r-xr-xr-x    1 root  wheel   17349 Oct 24
> 13:31 installworld_oldk,v drwxr-xr-x    9 root  wheel     512 Nov
>  6 23:30 kerberos5 drwxr-xr-x   10 root  wheel     512 Nov  6
> 23:30 kerberosIV drwxr-xr-x   99 root  wheel    2048 Nov  6 23:39
> lib
> drwxr-xr-x   43 root  wheel    1024 Nov  6 23:39 libexec
> drwxr-xr-x   37 root  wheel    1024 Nov  6 23:39 lkm
> drwxr-xr-x   20 root  wheel     512 Nov  6 23:41 release
> drwxr-xr-x    4 root  wheel     512 Nov  6 23:41 rescue
> drwxr-xr-x  138 root  wheel    2560 Nov  6 23:42 sbin
> drwxr-xr-x    8 root  wheel     512 Nov  6 23:43 secure
> drwxr-xr-x   28 root  wheel     512 Nov  6 23:46 share
> drwxr-xr-x   72 root  wheel    1536 Nov  7 00:13 sys
> drwxr-xr-x   14 root  wheel     512 Nov  7 00:13 tools
> drwxr-xr-x  280 root  wheel    4608 Nov  7 00:17 usr.bin
> drwxr-xr-x  244 root  wheel    4608 Nov  7 00:23 usr.sbin
>

Hello Gene,

See above suggestions.

Here is the procedure, taken from /usr/src/UPDATING. Also cvsup your 
ports and read /usr/ports/UPDATING. There are important things to 
do listed in both of them.

To rebuild everything and install it on the current system.
 -----------------------------------------------------------
 # Note: sometimes if you are running current you gotta do more than
 # is listed here if you are upgrading from a really old current.

 <make sure you have good level 0 dumps>
 <maybe fix /etc/fstab>
 make buildworld
 make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
 make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
     
 <reboot in single user>
 /etc/rc.d/preseedrandom
 mergemaster -p
 make installworld
 mergemaster 
 <reboot>

I hope this is a help and not a hinderance to you.

Don
-- 
Donald J. O'Neill
donaldj1066 at fastmail.fm