svn commit: r261031 - in head: . etc usr.sbin/etcupdate usr.sbin/mergemaster

[Bryan Drewery]

On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 03:03:42PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Thursday, January 23, 2014 2:48:41 pm Bryan Drewery wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 02:39:14PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
> > > On Thursday, January 23, 2014 10:42:36 am David Chisnall wrote:
> > > > On 22 Jan 2014, at 22:36, Glen Barber <gjb at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > It needs to use the build host version, because using (for example)
> > > > > powerpc resulting binary won't work on and amd64 system.
> > > > 
> > > > If it's used as part of the build, then it should be part of the toolchain 
> > > target and we should be using the version built there.
> > > 
> > > 'make distribute' is not a normal part of the build (it's not part of
> > > buildworld or installworld).  Both mergemaster and etcupdate only run it
> > > after an installworld has been performed, in which case an up-to-date
> > > services_mkdb should already be installed.
> > > 
> > > Bryan, what are you running 'make distribute' for?  Is this to populate
> > > a new jail from a world build?
> > 
> > Yes, poudriere uses this to create jails. It runs:
> > 
> > export TARGET_ARCH=...
> > make buildworld
> > make installworld DESTDIR=...
> > make distrib-dirs DESTDIR=... DB_FROM_SRC=1
> > make distribution DESTDIR=...
> > 
> > 
> > No mergemaster or etc-update is ran, we just install all of the
> > defaults.
> 
> Yes, but you are attemping to install a newer jail than the host, and strictly
> speaking that isn't supported.  (Rather, we only guarantee that a jail will work
> so long as its world is older or equal in age to the host.)

I am aware of *running* newer jails not being suppored, but *building*
seems to be an absolute must to be supported. How else would you
upgrade?

On my own system, I build the new source into a jail and then promote
the ZFS dataset the jail is using and then reboot into it.

> 
> All that said, for stable branches I intend to MFC the new flags to services_mkdb
> long before possibly merging the change to turn it on in 'make distribution'
> 
> -- 
> John Baldwin
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