On 08/07/05, Stuart Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --On 08 July 2005 06:54 -0400, Adam Gleave wrote: > > > I was trying to move this system to -stable from -release (both 3.7 - > > of course). So, I consulted http://www.openbsd.org/stable.html and - > > because of that - http://www.openbsd.org/anoncvs.html. I grabbed > > src.tar.gz and sys.tar.gz from muk.kd85.com and then untar'ed them > > both (tar xzf) - with no problems. > > Sounds like the important 'cd /usr/src' step before untarring src was > either missed, or failed (e.g. if the directory didn't exist). >
Yep - that was it. /usr/local remained intact throughout the process (phew) - so just made a copy of that, newfs'ed /usr and just did it all again from the sets. Slightly time consuming but at least it will teach me to be more careful with tar archives (I have to admit I thought tar wouldn't overwrite without warning - wrong!). Agreed with some others about inconsistent tar'ing. Thanks for all the help
