> Can anybody explain why to fix it? Or one must use 4.2-release as
> trampoline??? A month ago I asked this and Ruslan Ermilov sent me a patch,
> but this patch causes build fault also.
There seem to be about n ways to do the upgrade, where n is the number of
machines that have ever run FreeBSD 3.x. There was a great deal of
discussion about this a few weeks ago, you can start by searching
the -stable archives for "gperf"; that will get you in to all sorts of
3.5 -> 4.stable upgrade problems. Here is the procedure that worked for me,
which was written and revised by Pekka Savola:
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1. install some tools that are required to build & install RELENG_4 with old
tools:
cd /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/texinfo/libtxi && make
cd /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/texinfo/makeinfo && make all install
cd /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/texinfo/install-info && make all install
cd /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/texinfo && make all install clean
edit /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/groff/Makefile.cfg, comment out -fno-exceptions
from CXXFLAGS
cd /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/groff/libgroff && make
cd /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/groff/groff && make all install clean
2. build world without perl. miniperl requires setresuid which isn't there
yet. Perl will be built and installed later.
make buildworld -DNOPERL
3. build the kernel and install it.
make buildkernel KERNCONF=xxx
make installkernel KERNCONF=xxx
4. reboot (multiuser is fine, I use it all the time)
reboot
5. install the tools, except perl which was not built
ldconfig -R /usr/obj/usr/src/lib/libc
cd /usr/src && make installworld -DNOPERL
6. build and install perl (and optionally sysinstall)
cd /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/perl && make all install
cd /usr/src/release/sysinstall && make all install
7. prepare for mergemaster
cp -pr /etc /etc.backup
mv /etc/sendmail.cf /etc/mail/
mv /etc/aliases* /etc/mail/
mv /etc/mail/sendmail.cw /etc/mail/local-host-names
8. mergemaster the way you like it, change over to OpenSSH, etc.
(note: be especially careful about updating ssh; if you had an old port
installed, there will be old copies of config files and binaries in
/usr/local/sbin et al. make sure you're running the one you think you
are! --MD)
9. change wd* -> ad* in /etc/fstab, create these devices in /dev.
10. clean out lastlog etc., the format changed
rm /var/run/utmp /var/log/wtmp /var/log/lastlog
touch /var/run/utmp /var/log/wtmp /var/log/lastlog
11. reboot and be done ;-)
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Many people also report success going from 3.stable to 4.2-release, then to
4.stable.
Good luck..
M.D.
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