Re: 10-CURRENT i386 memstick snapshots broken?

From: Glen Barber <gjb_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2013 15:17:22 -0400
On Sat, Jun 08, 2013 at 12:10:16PM -0700, Tim Kientzle wrote:
> 
> On Jun 8, 2013, at 10:34 AM, Glen Barber wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 05:22:56PM -0400, Glen Barber wrote:
> >>> Has anyone else tried the i386 memstick and having the same problem?
> >>> 
> >> 
> >> Hmm.  Thanks for the report.  I'll take a look at the logs for i386, but
> >> they are generated the same way as the amd64, so in theory should not
> >> have any noticable difference.
> >> 
> > 
> > For amd64 and i386, native binaries are built, and installed into
> > scratch directories; for powerpc and powerpc64, I just use the amd64
> > binaries, because I cannot directly use the chroot binaries for
> > non-native architecture.
> > 
> > The scripts chroot into the scratch directories, and run the "real"
> > release builds.
> 
> Have you tried using Crochet for this sort of thing?
> 
> Since it was designed from the ground up for cross-building
> bootable images, it should avoid these issues.
> 

I have not, primarily because I was not aware of crochet when
I originally started this.  Although, by using the release stuff from
the base system, we do get a weekly run-test of the 'make release' bits
in head/ and stable/9/, so in theory, there would be no surprises when
it is -RELEASE time.

> The only fundamental limit right now is that Crochet uses
> the host system to build the UFS filesystems, so it can't
> build big-endian MIPS images on i386, for example.
> 
> 

Yes, I have this same issue with sparc64.

Glen


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