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List:       netbsd-current-users
Subject:    Re: postinstall anomaly
From:       Paul Goyette <paul () whooppee ! com>
Date:       2009-05-21 18:33:04
Message-ID: Pine.NEB.4.64.0905211132380.2651 () quicky ! whooppee ! com
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Yeah, the patch looks good.  If noone else gets to it during the day, 
I'll commit it this evening.

On Thu, 21 May 2009, Nicolas Joly wrote:

> On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 05:55:23AM -0700, Paul Goyette wrote:
>> With sources updated as of last night, postinstall seems to be confused
>> about whether or not makedev is successful.
>>
>> First, it reports
>>
>> 	makedev check:
>> 	        /tmp/_postinstall.22840.0/MAKEDEV != ///dev/MAKEDEV
>>
>> But later on, it claims that makedev was successful:
>>
>> 	postinstall checks passed: bluetooth ddbonpanic defaults dhcpcd
>> 	envsys gid hosts iscsi makedev motd named pam periodic pf postfix
>> 	ssh wscons x11 uid varrwho
>> 	postinstall checks failed: mtree rc obsolete
>>
>> And, when asked to fix makedev, it does so:
>>
>> 	{104} /build/netbsd-local/src/usr.sbin/postinstall/postinstall -s
>> 	./src -d / fix makedev mtree rc obsolete
>> 	Source directory: ./src
>> 	Target directory: /
>> 	makedev fix:
>> 	        Copied /tmp/_postinstall.22949.0/MAKEDEV to /dev/MAKEDEV
>
> Yep. I noticed it too ... and posted a patch for review on
> tech-toolchain@ ML.
>
> <http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-toolchain/2009/05/19/msg000709.html>
>
> Freel free to commit it if this ok, i'm mostly offline for a few days.
>
> -- 
> Nicolas Joly
>
> Biological Software and Databanks.
> Institut Pasteur, Paris.
>

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