Re: mergemaster and RELENG6
On Fri, 11 Nov 2005, J. W. Ballantine wrote: I'm trying to install RELEASE6 on a BSD machine, and the install fails in the mergemaster stage with: ... cap_mkdb: illegal option -- l usage: cap_mkdb [-v] [-f outfile] file [file ...] *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src/etc. *** FATAL ERROR: Cannot 'cd' to /usr/src/etc and install files to the temproot environment The steps I took were: copied /etc/rc.d to /etc/old_rc.d removed /usr/src/* /usr/obj/* cvsup'ed RELENG6 changed to /usr/src did a make buildworld did a make buildkernel did a make installkernel did a mergemaster -i Anyone have any thoughts on what is causing mergemaster to fail? Probably because you skipped the 'make installworld' step and are still running an old copy of mergemaster. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mergemaster and RELENG6
Thanks, my understanding was mergemaster before installworld. But that appears to be wrong. -- In Response to your message - Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 07:05:37 -0700 (MST) To: J. W. Ballantine [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Warren Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: mergemaster and RELENG6 On Fri, 11 Nov 2005, J. W. Ballantine wrote: I'm trying to install RELEASE6 on a BSD machine, and the install fails in the mergemaster stage with: ... cap_mkdb: illegal option -- l usage: cap_mkdb [-v] [-f outfile] file [file ...] *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src/etc. *** FATAL ERROR: Cannot 'cd' to /usr/src/etc and install files to the temproot environment The steps I took were: copied /etc/rc.d to /etc/old_rc.d removed /usr/src/* /usr/obj/* cvsup'ed RELENG6 changed to /usr/src did a make buildworld did a make buildkernel did a make installkernel did a mergemaster -i Anyone have any thoughts on what is causing mergemaster to fail? Probably because you skipped the 'make installworld' step and are still running an old copy of mergemaster. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mergemaster and RELENG6
J. W. Ballantine [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks, my understanding was mergemaster before installworld. But that appears to be wrong. Close, but not quite. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html#AEN27814 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
