Re: Possible regression with 200807 amd64 snapshot CD

On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 12:19 PM, Dimitry Andric <dimitry_at_andric.com> wrote:
> On 2008-08-20 17:06, Garrett Cooper wrote:
>>>> I'll see if I can get a fix into the GNU cpio code in -CURRENT,
>>>> unless someone wants to switch boot_crunch over to use bsdcpio.
>> Shall I create a PR then?
>
> Probably not needed, see below :)
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: cvs commit: src/release/amd64 boot_crunch.conf src/release/i386 boot_crunch.conf src/release/ia64 boot_crunch.conf src/release/pc98 boot_crunch.conf src/release/powerpc boot_crunch.conf src/release/sparc64 boot_crunch.conf ...
> Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:35:39 +0000 (UTC)
> From: Ken Smith <kensmith_at_FreeBSD.org>
> To: src-committers_at_FreeBSD.org, cvs-src_at_FreeBSD.org,    cvs-all_at_FreeBSD.org
>
> kensmith    2008-08-20 13:35:39 UTC
>
>  FreeBSD src repository
>
>  Modified files:
>    release/amd64        boot_crunch.conf
>    release/i386         boot_crunch.conf
>    release/ia64         boot_crunch.conf
>    release/pc98         boot_crunch.conf
>    release/powerpc      boot_crunch.conf
>    release/sparc64      boot_crunch.conf
>    release/sun4v        boot_crunch.conf
>  Log:
>  SVN rev 181927 on 2008-08-20 13:35:39Z by kensmith
>
>  Recent work on the gnu cpio seems to have introduced some bugs, it
>  complains about "Malformed numbers" while unpacking the dists and
>  what winds up on the disk isn't correct.  Use this as an opportunity
>  to switch over to bsdcpio since at this point we don't even build
>  and install the gnu cpio by default.  Note sysinstall needed to be
>  tweaked a bit (dropping tape block size setting) because it seems
>  bsdcpio doesn't do anything with block sizes, at least as far as
>  reading from archives goes.  That wasn't really a problem since
>  installations from tape have been broken for a while and the rest
>  of sysinstall's tape support code will be removed shortly.
>
>  Revision  Changes    Path
>  1.64      +2 -4      src/release/amd64/boot_crunch.conf
>  1.64      +2 -4      src/release/i386/boot_crunch.conf
>  1.15      +2 -4      src/release/ia64/boot_crunch.conf
>  1.65      +2 -3      src/release/pc98/boot_crunch.conf
>  1.7       +2 -4      src/release/powerpc/boot_crunch.conf
>  1.11      +2 -3      src/release/sparc64/boot_crunch.conf
>  1.4       +2 -3      src/release/sun4v/boot_crunch.conf


This is really cool. Will the 8-CURRENT snapshot images for 200808 be
regenerated accordingly?


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