Re: Getting from 5.1-RELEASE to RELENG_5_1

On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 07:34:09AM +1000, Peter Jeremy typed:
> I am looking at moving various hosts from 4.x to 5.1 but have run into
> a problem with my test machine.  I've successfully installed
> 5.1-RELEASE (from CD) but want to rebuild the system to customise it
> to its environment.
> 
> The machine in question does not have enough local disk space to hold
> both /usr/src and /usr/obj.  When I tried to NFS mount the space, the
> 'make buildworld' would consistently wedge the machine in "stage 1:
> bootstrap tools" building games/fortune/strfile.  I tried using local
> disk for /usr/obj and NFS mounting just /usr/src.  This got somewhat
> further but again wedged the machine.  "Wedged" means no response via
> network or local keyboard, needing reset to recover.
> 
> Has anyone else seen NFS problems with 5.1-RELEASE?  The client is a
> P-133 with 96MB RAM.  The server is a PIII running roughly 4.6.  They
> are both using 100baseTX full-duplex 802.1Q trunks to a common switch.
> 
> My alternative (preferred) option is to do a build world/kernel on
> another faster machine (the NFS server used above).  This fails with
> multiple definitions of _sigaction and _sigprocmask building
> libpthread.  Looking back thru the archives, I gather this has been
> fixed in -CURRENT but it's not in RELENG_5_1 because it's not
> security-related.
> 
> Any suggestions for a way forward?

I just successfully upgraded releng_4 -> releng_5_1 by using:

make NOLIBPTHREAD=true buildworld
...
make NOLIBPTHREAD=true installworld
...

Maybe there should be a note about this in UPDATING ?

Ruben

> 
> Peter
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