Also in a separate thread to -questions. Thought it was better on hackers after a few hours thought.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Tim Judd <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 04:59:52 -0600 Subject: mkuzip and/or geom_uzip changes? To: FreeBSD Questions <[email protected]> Hi All, Just starting to see if I can find other reports. You all probably have had the "more than one pair of eyes looking at a thing is better than my eyes alone." This is why I'm writing now, as I'm starting the discovery. Let me background this a little bit. I only started looking into this because mkuzip and it's counterpart, geom_uzip are throwing errors on FreeBSD8 i386 scenario (/etc/src.conf in effect, removing *LOTS* of stuff with knobs): make DESTDIR=/home/small8 installworld installkernel distribution mv /home/small8/boot /home/small8-boot/ makefs -t ffs /home/small8/usr.img /home/small8/usr/ mkuzip -o /home/small8/usr.uzip /home/small8/usr.img [*] chflags -R noschg /home/small8/usr/* rm -rf /home/small8/usr/* /home/small8/usr.img ee /home/small8/etc/rc.d/mountcritlocal [**] makefs -t ffs /home/small8-boot/mfsroot /home/small8/ gzip --best /home/small8-boot/mfsroot ee /home/small8-boot/boot/loader.conf [***] rm /home/small8-boot/boot/kernel/*.symbols gzip --best /home/small8-boot/boot/kernel/kernel mkisofs -U -J -r -V "FreeBSD8" -b boot/cdboot -no-emul-boot -iso-level 4 -o /home/small8.iso /home/small8-boot/ [*]: mkuzip inserts a script header that is broken. module name it's searching for may have been renamed? [**]: Edited mountcritlocal to mount the usr.uzip file as by using the above script header, throws errors [***]: added zlib and geom_uzip modules to load to the boot image, to satisfy the script header's requirements. OK, the above scenario creates about a 33MB usr.uzip, and a 68MB iso. Small enough to apparently fit into the undocumented 50 or 100MB size limit of mfs_root module The problem: mkuzip generates a few lines as a script in the head of the resulting *.uzip file. Two problems... 1) the module it queries for is geom_uzip (kldstat -m $m), but FreeBSD8 names the geom_uzip module (i guess, internally) as g_uzip. mkuzip's generated image will never find the module if they're not named the same. 2) even with geom_uzip module and it's dependency zlib loaded, i don't get a mdconfig node '/dev/md?.uzip' to appear. It's been forever since I touched uzip, so I have to ask. Looking at the cvsweb, (as a bonus question, what's the svn website address to look at source files?) mkuzip program last modified 3 years (2 months for the Makefile), geom_uzip module Makefile last modified 4 years ago. 3-4 years yield a median FreeBSD version 6.2. Have we broken something in 7 or 8? The request: Is it a PEBKAC? ID 10T error? Duplicatable? I'm gonna research what I can, when I can. I would expect to see something pop up clearly if it is a regression. Can I ask you all to use your eyes or past knowledge if something is broken?
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