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Date:      Fri, 1 Nov 2002 18:16:37 +0200
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Jake Burkholder <jake@locore.ca>
Cc:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/release/sparc64 boot_crunch.conf
Message-ID:  <20021101161637.GA11384@sunbay.com>
In-Reply-To: <20021101112435.H22677@locore.ca>
References:  <200211010814.gA18EU6f080183@repoman.freebsd.org> <20021101104548.G22677@locore.ca> <200211010814.gA18EU6f080183@repoman.freebsd.org> <XFMail.20021101102937.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20021101104548.G22677@locore.ca> <20021101155855.GA5673@sunbay.com> <20021101112435.H22677@locore.ca>

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On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 11:24:35AM -0500, Jake Burkholder wrote:
> Apparently, On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 05:58:55PM +0200,
> 	Ruslan Ermilov said words to the effect of;
>=20
> > On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 10:29:37AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
> > >=20
> > > On 01-Nov-2002 Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > > > ru          2002/11/01 00:14:30 PST
> > > >=20
> > > >   Modified files:
> > > >     release/sparc64      boot_crunch.conf=20
> > > >   Log:
> > > >   sparc64 does not yet support sysinstall(8).
> > >=20
> > > That's really odd considering I just installed on an ultra60
> > > this morning using sysinstall off of a CD I built from make
> > > release yesterday.
> > >=20
> >=20
> > On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 10:45:48AM -0500, Jake Burkholder wrote:
> > > Apparently, On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 12:14:30AM -0800,
> > > 	Ruslan Ermilov said words to the effect of;
> > >=20
> > > > ru          2002/11/01 00:14:30 PST
> > > >=20
> > > >   Modified files:
> > > >     release/sparc64      boot_crunch.conf=20
> > > >   Log:
> > > >   sparc64 does not yet support sysinstall(8).
> > >=20
> > > Please try it before making assumptions.
> > >=20
> > I did.  cross-release on i386 died because it tried to
> > run the sparc64 binary, rtermcap, which is the build-tool
> > for sysinstall.  It is actually the bug in the "make
> > release" (object directories are created _after_ the
> > build-tools are), but it's normally not visible because
> > object directories are already built during the buildworld
> > stage of "make release".  In this case, sysinstall is not
> > built on sparc64, according to usr.sbin/sysinstall/Makefile,
> > revision 1.236.
> >=20
> > I also tried building it on panther, but it may be that
> > its libraries are out of date, so either:
> >=20
> > 1.  re-enable sysinstall in usr.sbin/Makefile and here
> > 2.  apologize
>=20
> Please do not commit to the sparc64 parts of the release directory
> until you demonstrate that you have some interest in ensuring that
> the resulting releases are installable and work.  Cross releases
> don't work because the endianness of the mfs root filesystems will
> be wrong.  If you intend to fix that that's great, until then do
> not break native releases so you can build broken cross releases.
>=20
For many people, doing a cross-release is the only way to check
their changes thoroughly.

bswapfs(8) that is in the works will be capable of handling the
endianness issues.


Cheers,
--=20
Ruslan Ermilov		Sysadmin and DBA,
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ru@FreeBSD.org		FreeBSD committer,
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