[wplug-bsd] overzealous upgrade all the way to CURRENT?

[Poyner, Brandon]

I'm somewhat confused, however, on how a 'make buildworld' would install
anything.  You'd have to 'make installworld' to put the new uname into
place, or have run 'make world'.  Or have things changed that much with
FreeBSD 5.x?  

As for telling what version of cvs source you have pulled down with
cvsup, take a look at the file /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh for the
revision and branch information.

Brandon Poyner
Network Engineer III
CCAC - College Office
412-237-3086
 

-----Original Message-----
From: wplug-bsd-bounces+bpoyner=ccac.edu at wplug.org
[mailto:wplug-bsd-bounces+bpoyner=ccac.edu at wplug.org] On Behalf Of Bill
Moran
Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 2:19 PM
To: Duncan Hutty
Cc: wplug-bsd at wplug.org
Subject: Re: [wplug-bsd] overzealous upgrade all the way to CURRENT?

Duncan Hutty <dhutty+wplug-bsd at ece.cmu.edu> wrote:
> Further tales of Duncan's dabblings with the Beastie-5.3:
> 
> I thought compiling a new kernel might fall under the category of 
> 'everybody should do this'. So I copied and modified GENERIC taking
out 
> some things that even I could tell weren't necessary.
> 
> I had read somewhere that sparc64 rejected older teachings and
followed 
> the new way of the kernel, per the HB's instructions:
> cd /usr/src && make buildkernel KERNCONF=<MINE>
> 
> Returning some significant time later I discovered to my disappoinment

> that it failed to build me a new kernel.
> 
> So I poked around various lists in some of the dimmer corners of the 
> web, where I heard tell of make buildworld as a required precursor to 
> make buildkernel. Naively, I believed these rumours. Again, the wait, 
> but being somewhat of a gentooista, I'm used to that and find other 
> things to do.
> 
> When I return, uname -a does not return a nice happy
FreeBSD-5.3-STABLE 
> <MINE> string, but instead includes the scary FreeBSD-6.0-CURRENT. And

> thinking to myself that there be dragons there, I remember being
warned 
> off CURRENT in just about every document I've ever seen about FreeBSD.
> 
> Thus I beseech you with these humble questions:
> Have I indeed upgraded my system to 6.0-CURRENT? Or is uname confusing
me?

Sounds like you've got 6.0 at this point.

> What should I have verified beforehand to ensure that this didn't
happen 
> in the first place?

This will be controlled by your supfile.  It should say one of these:
*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5 # For 5-STABLE
*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5_3 # for the 5.3 patch branch
Right now, it probably says:
*default release=cvs tag=. # Gets you the bloodiest part of the edge

> What led it to such a dramatic change anyway? Was it the contents of
my 
> supfile? I wasn't too confident about the difference between the tag
and 
> release parameters.

That would be my first guess.  Can you post the supfile you used?

> Given that this is to be a stable, barely touched once it has been set

> up kind of box, is it possible to downgrade?

At this point, probably.  6 hasn't had a lot of time to diverge from 5
yet, so re-cvsupping with the proper parameters (=RELENG_5, or similar)
and rebuilding world/kernel is likely to work OK.

The basic steps for rebuilding/reinstalling are:
1) make buildworld
2) make buildkernel
3) make installkernel
4) Reboot, ensure new kernel boots (I recommend you skip this step when
you
   downgrade)
5) make installworld
6) Reboot
7) mergemaster (I'm not sure how well this will work on a downgrade)

I did this once (long ago) when I accidentally upgraded a 4.2 system to
5-CURRENT, and was able to save the day successfully.

-- 
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
http://www.potentialtech.com
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