On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 03:22:56PM -0600, Bryan Drewery wrote: > On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 03:03:42PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > > On Thursday, January 23, 2014 2:48:41 pm Bryan Drewery wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 02:39:14PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > > > > On Thursday, January 23, 2014 10:42:36 am David Chisnall wrote: > > > > > On 22 Jan 2014, at 22:36, Glen Barber <g...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > It needs to use the build host version, because using (for example) > > > > > > powerpc resulting binary won't work on and amd64 system. > > > > > > > > > > If it's used as part of the build, then it should be part of the > > > > > toolchain > > > > target and we should be using the version built there. > > > > > > > > 'make distribute' is not a normal part of the build (it's not part of > > > > buildworld or installworld). Both mergemaster and etcupdate only run it > > > > after an installworld has been performed, in which case an up-to-date > > > > services_mkdb should already be installed. > > > > > > > > Bryan, what are you running 'make distribute' for? Is this to populate > > > > a new jail from a world build? > > > > > > Yes, poudriere uses this to create jails. It runs: > > > > > > export TARGET_ARCH=... > > > make buildworld > > > make installworld DESTDIR=... > > > make distrib-dirs DESTDIR=... DB_FROM_SRC=1 > > > make distribution DESTDIR=... > > > > > > > > > No mergemaster or etc-update is ran, we just install all of the > > > defaults. > > > > Yes, but you are attemping to install a newer jail than the host, and > > strictly > > speaking that isn't supported. (Rather, we only guarantee that a jail will > > work > > so long as its world is older or equal in age to the host.) > > I am aware of *running* newer jails not being suppored, but *building* > seems to be an absolute must to be supported. How else would you > upgrade? > > On my own system, I build the new source into a jail and then promote > the ZFS dataset the jail is using and then reboot into it.
Ok I see that my other use case is fine (building newer) and that this is just an issue with cross-building. I do understand that you can't run cross-arch and that you'll just need to have the updated version in the host. So nevermind my concerns. Sorry for the noise. > > > > > All that said, for stable branches I intend to MFC the new flags to > > services_mkdb > > long before possibly merging the change to turn it on in 'make distribution' > > > > -- > > John Baldwin
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