Upgrading via source build, 10.4->11.2

Miroslav Lachman 000.fbsd at quip.cz
Wed Dec 5 14:39:52 UTC 2018


George Mitchell wrote on 2018/12/05 14:24:
> On 12/4/18 9:35 PM, Warner Losh wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 4, 2018, 7:25 PM George Mitchell <george+freebsd at m5p.com wrote:
>> [...]
>>> kldxref /boot/kernel
>>> kldxref: unknown metadata record 4 in file atacard.ko
>>> kldxref: unknown metadata record 4 in file atp.ko
>>> kldxref: unknown metadata record 4 in file atp.ko
>>> [...etc...]
>>>
>>> Should I have started with "make buildworld," or would that have
>>> bombed out even worse?  Do I reboot and "make buildworld"?  Or do
>>> I "make buildworld" now, while still running 10.4?      -- George
>>>
>>
>> Just ignore the warnings. They are harmless.
>>
>> Warner
>> [...]
> 
> Thanks, that's what I expected.  But what I really need to know is
> whether to make buildworld under 10.4 or 11.2.  Or do I do it twice?
> And presumably I can't run mergemaster until after buildworld.

I did upgrade from 10.4 to 11.2 on all our machines, just one builworld, 
buildkernel on shared build server (NFS exported /usr/obj + /usr/src), 
then installkernel, mergemaster -p, installworld, mergemaster, shutdown 
-r now.

Miroslav Lachman


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