On Wed, October 18, 2017 6:15 pm, Limaunion wrote: > On 10/17/2017 05:44 PM, Stuart Henderson wrote: >> On 2017-10-16, Limaunion <limaun...@fibertel.com.ar> wrote: >>> Hi! Last friday I upgraded my ALIX system from 6.0 to 6.2 using the PXE >>> boot method. In previous years I used an internal FTP server to perform >>> the upgrade, but for some reason this is not supported any more since a >>> couple of releases. >> >> ftp support was removed from the installer, but you can place the same >> files on an http/https server instead. >> >>> I mounted and published the ISO image using a >>> raspberrypi and NGINX (HTTP method). During the install process I hit >>> the following error 'unable to get a verified list of distribution >>> sets'(*). I couldn't find much help from google but after some time I >>> figured out that the install was looking for a file named index.txt, >>> that is not included in the ISO. >> >> you want nearly all of the files from the release directory on a mirror, >> you can skip install*.fs / install*.iso. >> >>> Maybe some of this information can be included to the install guide for >>> those of us doing a local HTTP upgrade, and also it would be great to >>> have the index.txt file included in the ISO. >> >> you won't have the SHA256.sig to verify the files against the signify >> signature in the iso either. >> >>> For the record, the kernel relinking (Relinking to create unique >>> kernel...) took about 14 minutes in my ALIX board and it takes about >>> 2.5 >>> minutes the library reordering during the boot process. >> >> yes, it's terribly slow on machines with slow storage devices. >> I tend to disable it on those (until I can justify replacing the >> machine with something newer, which has other advantages too). >> >> >> > > Hi! you mean that the library reordering can be disabled? care to share > how to do that? google didn't help... > Thanks for your comments. >
Why does everyone always go straight to google? (Yeah, I know, silly question.) And then give up? Looking at the code might be a better start. Line 163 is particularly interesting... http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/etc/rc?annotate=1.519
