Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2013 22:16:26 GMT
From: Bertram Scharpf <software@bertram-scharpf.de>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: kern/183765: /boot/{menu, loader}.rc do not get updated by "make installkernel"
Message-ID: <201311072216.rA7MGQuF050030@oldred.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 183765
>Category: kern
>Synopsis: /boot/{menu,loader}.rc do not get updated by "make installkernel"
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Thu Nov 07 22:20:00 UTC 2013
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Bertram Scharpf
>Release: 9.2
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD 9.2-STABLE #0: Wed Oct 30 20:21:00 CET 2013 /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
>Description:
FreeBSD 9.2 provides newer versions for the files
"/boot/menu.rc" and "/boot/loader.rc". These will not be installed.
# cd /usr/src
# make installkernel
# ls -lat /usr/src/sys/boot/forth/menu.rc /boot/menu.rc
# diff /usr/src/sys/boot/forth/menu.rc /boot/menu.rc
There was a question about this on the mailing list in July, but
the guy who asked did not receive one single answer. Before
encountering the same treatment, I decided to make a bug report
out of it.
After all, it is a behaviour no one could instinctively expect.
>How-To-Repeat:
Install FreeBSD 9.1. Then upgrade to 9.2 as descibed in
<http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html>.
>Fix:
The decision is made in "/usr/src/sys/boot/$arch/loader/Makefile"
in about line 100.
Instead of a fix, maybe the handbook should be extended by
a pointer to the problem.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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