[illumos-Discuss] [osol-discuss] Doc for build upgrade

[Rob McMahon]

  On 02/09/2010 16:25, Ali Bahrami wrote:
>>> I've just been trying this, and it all went without a hitch up to 
>>> the point where you're supposed to reboot into 145. I have no 
>>> errors, and I'm in the new boot environment:
>>>
>>> os-devel_145 NR / 86.05G static 2010-09-02 11:42
>>>
>>> but uname still says snv_134, which doesn't sound right to me. I'm 
>>> going to continue with the code download and build, but I'm 
>>> suspicious now.
>> Okay, sorry to reply to myself, but I think this is terminal. `dmake 
>> setup' fails with
>>
>> ld: fatal: 
>> .../illumos-gate/usr/src/common/mapfiles/common/map.noexstk: 31: 
>> expected a `=', `:', `|', or `@'
>> *** Error code 1
>> dmake: Fatal error: Command failed for target `cw'
>>
>
>    The necessary support for the new mapfiles integrated in snv_135. 
> It does
> look like your build system is still at 134.
>
Yup, this is one area I think IPS needs some work.  By default it tells 
you nothing (only "nothing to do" type messages), with -v it gives you 
pages and pages of messages about things that are just fine, with error 
messages buried in the noise.  There should be something in between.

A second attempt to do by hand what onu does, but with some -v's thrown 
in revealed that the package system/zones/brand/lx threw up an 
"incompatible" error.  Trying to uninstall this reported that 
slim_install depended on it.  So adding in

pfexec pkg uninstall -v slim_install
pfexec pkg uninstall -v system/zones/brand/lx

before running onu got me going.
I am now the proud owner of two Ilumos systems.  I had to do this on 
both machines.

I hope this helps others out there.  Can we get the build document 
(http://illumos.org/projects/illumos-gate/wiki/How_To_Build_illumos) 
updated ?

Rob

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