freebsd stable - Dec 2018 - Success updating stable/11 to /12; a couple things to note

On Thu, 2018-12-27 at 05:53 -0800, David Wolfskill
wrote:
> * I found that I actually needed to create the ntpd user on the
> ? running system prior to "make installworld" -- having run
> ? "mergemaster -U" against the target (DESTDIF) was insufficient.
The correct update sequence involves running mergemaster twice, once
with the -p option, then again later without it. It's detailed at the
bottom of UPDATING. People get in the habit of skipping the -p step
because it's only really needed once every few years, such as when a
new user is added to the base system.

-- Ian

On Thu, Dec 27, 2018 at 09:13:09AM -0700, Ian Lepore
wrote:
> On Thu, 2018-12-27 at 05:53 -0800, David Wolfskill wrote:
> > * I found that I actually needed to create the ntpd user on the
> > ? running system prior to "make installworld" -- having run
> > ? "mergemaster -U" against the target (DESTDIF) was
insufficient.
> 
> The correct update sequence involves running mergemaster twice, once
> with the -p option, then again later without it. It's detailed at the
> bottom of UPDATING. People get in the habit of skipping the -p step
> because it's only really needed once every few years, such as when a
> new user is added to the base system.
> 
> -- Ian
> ....
Yes, but the one after "make installworld" isn't likely to affect
the
"make installworld".  :-)

The sequence of events:

mount -u -r /
mount -u -r /usr
mount /dev/ada0s1a /S1
mount /dev/ada0s1d /S1/usr
mount -u -w /S1
mount -u -w /S1/usr
ln -fhs /var /S1/var
mount -o ro freebeast:/usr/src /usr/src
mount -o ro freebeast:/usr/obj /usr/obj
id
mount
cd /usr/src
uname -a
date
make LD=ld.lld installkernel DESTDIR=/S1
date
mergemaster -U -u 0022 -p -D /S1
date
rm -fr /S1/usr/include.old
date
mv -f /S1/usr/include /S1/usr/include.old
date
rm -fr /S1/usr/share/man
date
make installworld DESTDIR=/S1
date
mergemaster -F -U -u 0022 -i -D /S1
date
make delete-old DESTDIR=/S1
date
date
df -k
date


My point was that running "mergemaster -U" against the new image (/S1,
in the case above) is not sufficient for "make installworld
DESTDIR=/S!"
to work: it is necessary that the *running* system be aware of the
"ntpd" user (I presume, to allow ownership of files to be set by the
"ntpd" name, vs. the numeric "123").

Peace,
david
-- 
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