clarification of cvsup process.

[Greg Groth]

On 6/15/2006 3:02 PM, Bill Moran wrote:
 > In response to Greg Groth <ggroth at gregs-garage.com>:
 >
 >> On 6/15/2006 2:42 PM, Bill Moran wrote:
 >>  > In response to Greg Groth <ggroth at gregs-garage.com>:
 >
 > [snip]
 >
 >>  >> Contents of cvsupfile:
 >>  >>
 >>  >> *default host=cvsup6.FreeBSD.org
 >>  >> *default base=/var/db
 >>  >> *default prefix=/usr
 >>  >> *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_6_0
 >>  >> *default delete use-rel-suffix
 >>  >>
 >>  >>
 >>  >> src-all
 >>  >> *default tag=.
 >>  >
 >>  > Note that you set the tag=RELENG_6_0 ... which is what you want, 
then you
 >>  > reset it tag=. -- which will give you 6-STABLE -- not what you want.
 >>  >
 >>  > Remove the *default tag=. line.
 >>
 >> Out of curiosity, can you revert back to RELENG_6_0 from 6_STABLE?
 >> Obviously I already ran this process...
 >
 > I have successfully done this with other versions of FreeBSD, whether or
 > not it works is dependent on exactly what version you're trying to back
 > out of, and I can't say for sure about 6-STABLE to 6.0.
 >
 >>  > What does uname -a tell you after the upgrade?
 >>
 >> mail# uname -a
 >> FreeBSD mail.domain.com 6.0-RELEASE-p6 FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE-p6 #1: Tue
 >> Mar 28 13:46:24 CST 2006
 >> ggroth at ns1.domain.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
 >
 > Are you sure you completed the process successfully?  If you'd had
 > tag=., this would reports something like 6-STABLE.  If you'd had
 > 6_0_RELENG, it would report 6.0-RELEASE-p9.
 >
 > It looks as if the make install* steps weren't completed.
 >

(reiterating my original email for clarification)

# cd /usr/src
# make buildworld
# make buildkernel
# make installkernel
# reboot

After rebooting into single user mode:

# fsck -p
# mount -u /
# mount -a -t ufs
# swapon -a
# adjkerntz -i
# cd /usr/src (I forgot to list this last time around)
# mergemaster -p
# make installworld
# mergemaster
# reboot

No errors reported during any of these steps, and each step appears to 
complete like it's doing exactly what it's supposed to.

Can you see any steps I missed or overlooked?  Any advice on how to 
determine where something might have gone wrong?  All of a sudden I'm 
having this feeling that something might be broken somewhere...

Many thanks,

Greg Groth