Mergemaster Fails with R/O NFS Mounted /usr/src

[Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group]

Installing 4.2-BETA on a system from read-only NFS mounted /usr/src and 
/usr/obj, mergemaster fails with the following:

[lines removed]
mtree -deU -f /usr/opt/cvs-420b-001106/src/etc/mtree/BSD.include.dist  
-p /usr/libdata/perl/5.00503/mach
cd /; rm -f /sys; ln -s usr/src/sys sys
cd /usr/share/locale;  set - `cat /usr/opt/cvs-420b-001106/src/etc/local
e.alias`;  while [ $# -gt 0 ] ;  do  rm -rf "$1";  ln -s "$2" "$1";  
shift; shift;  done
cd /usr/share/nls;  set - `cat /usr/opt/cvs-420b-001106/src/etc/locale.a
lias`;  while [ $# -gt 0 ] ;  do  rm -rf "$1";  ln -s "$2" "$1";  
shift; shift;  done;  rm -rf POSIX;  ln -s C POSIX
rm: ASCII: Read-only file system
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/opt/cvs-420b-001106/src/etc.

  *** FATAL ERROR: Cannot 'cd' to /usr/src/etc and install files to the
      temproot environment

cwtest# 


Based upon the diffs between mergemaster 1.6.2.3 and 1.6.2.4, here's my 
workaround:

--- src/usr.sbin/mergemaster/mergemaster.sh.orig        Wed Nov  1 00:34:30 
2000
+++ src/usr.sbin/mergemaster/mergemaster.sh     Tue Nov  7 06:38:46 2000
@@ -428,7 +428,7 @@
   esac
 
   { cd ${SOURCEDIR} &&
-    make DESTDIR=${DESTDIR} distrib-dirs &&
+    touch .foobar && rm .foobar && make DESTDIR=${DESTDIR} distrib-dirs
     make DESTDIR=${TEMPROOT} distrib-dirs &&
     make DESTDIR=${TEMPROOT} -DNO_MAKEDEV distribution;} ||
   { echo '';



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Cy Schubert                      Fax:  (250)387-5766
Team Leader, Sun/DEC Team   Internet:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA
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