On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 09:44:40AM +0200, Hartmann, O. wrote: > >> An installation failed due to pkg(ng) was missing libarchive.so via > > > > There is pkg-static for recovering in this type of situation. > > Oh ... I'm new to pkg(ng). > No worries. It is a nice thing to know about, since after a big shlib bump during an upgrade, if all else is broken, you can still at least get /rescue stuff and pkg-static to upgrade third party software. > >> If someone has some hints how to recompile the sources with an emergency > >> booted disk, I highly appreciate some desater advice. Maybe the release > >> of FreeBSD-10-CURRENT sources I compiled do have accidentally a nasty > >> bug, so it would be nice to update the sources and have a complete > >> recompilation done. > >> > > > > If you can get booted into a recovery medium, you can mount /usr/src and > > /usr/obj from the hosed system, and should be able to > > installworld/installkernel into the hosed system with DESTDIR set. > > > > I do this the very moment with the RELEASE CD I found at allbsd.org for > the most recent FBSD 10.0-CURRENT as from 16.08.2012. I try to build the > sources and install them into the mounted DESTDIR. > I have lately been creating memstick images for this exact type of thing. On -CURRENT and 9-STABLE, you can do: # make -C /usr/src buildworld buildkernel # make -C /usr/src/release NOSRC=yes NODOCS=yes NOPORTS=yes memstick Then take the resulting memory stick image to use for recovery. GlenReceived on Fri Aug 17 2012 - 09:08:45 UTC
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