Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 19:46:34 GMT From: Wes Groleau <groleau+bsd@freeshell.org> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: bin/81218: 5.4 dist archives not backwards compatible Message-ID: <200505181946.j4IJkYpY094241@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200505181950.j4IJo2ap049901@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 81218
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: 5.4 dist archives not backwards compatible
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: maintainer-update
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Wed May 18 19:50:02 GMT 2005
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Wes Groleau
>Release: 4.11
>Organization:
Ain't no organization here!
>Environment:
I am not at the machine, but it has a Pentium Pro (i386)
>Description:
i386/5.4-RELEASE split archives cammot be unpacked by a 4.11 installation. Repeats: "Unknown file type 'x', extracted as normal file" until error count limit is reached.
(I had a 4.9 system, and due to various issues, am forced to use the method below to upgrade. This method worked for 4.11, but 4.11 was not able to get 5.4)
>How-To-Repeat:
Let /tmp/Download be a directory on a machine running FreeBSD 4.11
This machine has no internet access. On an iMac with dialup,<BR>
NFS Mount the directory at /BSD <BR>
cd /BSD <BR>
wget --mirror --passive-ftp ftp://ftp2.freebsd.org/......../5.4-RELEASE <BR>
On the FreeBSD machine (it has two disks), dismount all partitions of the target disk, NOT the disk booted. In my case /dev/ad1s1 was booted and ad1s0 is the one I want to upgrade
<BR> mkdir /UPGRADE
<BR> mount /dev/ad0s1a /UPGRADE
<BR> mount /dev/ad0s1e /UPGRADE/var
<BR> mount /dev/ad0s1f /UPGRADE/tmp
<BR> mount /dev/ad0s1g /UPGRADE/usr
<BR> cd /tmp/Download/......../5.4-RELEASE/base
<BR>Look in install.sh and copy the cat base.?? | tar (et cetera) command. Use /UPGRADE for the destination.
<BR> Watch it fail.
>Fix:
Include in the tools directory binary versions of tar that can execute on earlier O.S. installations but are capable of unpacking these archives.
Or document command-line options for making it work on earlier systems
(if possible)
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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