From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 14 06:51:40 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EAC71065676 for ; Sat, 14 Nov 2009 06:51:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from manolis@FreeBSD.org) Received: from aiolos.otenet.gr (aiolos.otenet.gr [83.235.67.30]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1F888FC0A for ; Sat, 14 Nov 2009 06:51:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pulstar.local (ppp-94-69-68-99.home.otenet.gr [94.69.68.99]) by aiolos.otenet.gr (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id nAE6WtJc001241; Sat, 14 Nov 2009 08:32:55 +0200 Message-ID: <4AFE4F17.6050007@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 08:32:55 +0200 From: Manolis Kiagias User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Macintosh/20090812) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Trever References: <801850.20206.qm@web113202.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <801850.20206.qm@web113202.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.96.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bad source in the distro iso's X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 06:51:40 -0000 Trever wrote: > I noticed in 7.2 that the /usr/src installed from the ISO downloads would not build without first sup'ing for a few updates. (disc1.iso's) > > I notice in the 8.0RC2&3 that some of the source files are corrupted. > > Not a media issue, checksum's have always been confirmed good. > > Is this normal, for the packaged source to be "bad"? > > One of the nice things about BSD is that it comes with everything to build itself, but if the source won't build without first updating... > > Just curious. > > Trever > > There must be something wrong at your end. I routinely run make buildworld / make release using -RELEASE sources and never had any problems. Are you sure you are installing *all* the sources, both kernel and world? It could be that something goes wrong during decompression, though I suspect this would happen to other files as well leading to a non-working system.