Re: net/net-snmp build failure on 9.99.37

[Chavdar Ivanov <ci4ic4%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Tue, 14 Jan 2020 at 15:43, Patrick Welche <prlw1%cam.ac.uk@localhost> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 03:20:46PM +0000, Chavdar Ivanov wrote:
> > To complete the analysis, I tried to upgrade a 9.99.36 system to
> > 9.99.37 by booting off the ISO file I previously used for the clean
> > installation described above.
> >
> > It failed in a similar was as with sysupgrade :
> >
> > ls -l /sbin /bin /usr/sbin /usr/bin | egrep 'wheel[ \t]*0' | wc -l
> >       91
> > (the clean installation returns 0).
> >
> > It gets less clear after this... But at the moment I can't see how to
> > upgrade to 9.99.37.
>
> I just hit the same thing without using sysupgrade.
>
> Essentially tar built in I'm not sure which window can't unpack symlinks.
>
> On a couple of days old -current/amd64
>
> grab base.tar.xz
> tar -tzvf base.tar.xz | grep reboot        see that it's a symlink
> tar -xzpvf base.tar.xz -C /                see that /sbin/reboot is a zero
>                                                  length file
> cd / && pax -r -v -z -pe -f base.tar.xz    see that /sbin/reboot is fine

Prior to 9.99.37 we have:
$ ls -li /bin/tar /bin/pax /bin/cpio
13081639 -r-xr-xr-x 3 root wheel 166288 Jan 12 17:00 /bin/cpio
13081639 -r-xr-xr-x 3 root wheel 166288 Jan 12 17:00 /bin/pax
13081639 -r-xr-xr-x 3 root wheel 166288 Jan 12 17:00 /bin/tar

Hardlinks; in 9.99.37 we have:

 ~ ls -li /bin/tar /bin/cpio /bin/pax
181767 -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   50288 Jan 14 03:10 /bin/cpio
181784 -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  166288 Jan 14 03:57 /bin/pax
181796 -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   82352 Jan 14 03:10 /bin/tar

different files, but pax is the same as on 9.99.36, at least sizewise.

So the easiest way to sort oneself out of this is to hard-link
/bin/pax to the others and carry on the update.



>
> Oddly - now repeat the tar, and also find that it is fine.
>
> So the work around seems to be "use pax". The surpise is that then tar is
> fixed.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Patrick



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