/usr/src was not installed

[cc]

hi

I have a fresh installation of freeBSD 6.0, but my /usr/src is empty:

# cd /usr/src
# ls -la
total 4
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel  512 Nov  3 09:09 .
drwxr-xr-x  18 root  wheel  512 Mar 18 04:25 ..

I don't know why /usr/src was not installed.
Did I forget something during the installation ?

my system before update:

 uname -a
FreeBSD bsd.domain 6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0: Thu Nov  3 09:36:13 UTC 2005     root@x64.samsco.home:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386

is it the correct way to install source tree on freeBSD 6.0 to get patched stable and not beta ?

# cat /etc/cvsup.base

*default host=cvsup6.FreeBSD.org
*default base=/var/db
*default prefix=/usr
*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_6_0
*default release=cvs delete use-rel-suffix compress
*default delete use-rel-suffix

*default compress

*src-all

do I need these following commands after source tree installation ?

# make -j 5 buildworld
# make buildkernel
# make installkernel
# make installworld

greetings
cc

[scottro]

Is this a FreeBSD install or a PCBSD install? I'm going to guess it's a FreeBSD one.

When you installed, it would have depended upon what you selected during installation--perhaps you didn't install the source tree. I forget the exact choices, but perhaps you just chose to install the binaries.)

So, a cvsup should fix that.

RELENG_6 will give you PRERELEASE. RELENG_6.0 will probably put you a bit behind, getting 6.0-psomething. See
http://home.nyc.rr.com/computertaijutsu/release.html for a good explanation.

Once you do the cvsup you should have your source tree.

For the actual steps for installation, you can look at

http://home.nyc.rr.com/computertaijutsu/FreeBSD5x.html

Avoid the -j flags, according to the latest UPDATING.

Doing it the way you have it, make buildkernel make isntallkernel will install the GENERIC kernel, not a custom kernel.

After installkernel, reboot, preferably in single user mode.

Then,

fsck -p
mount -u /
mount -a
mergemaster -p

(This might be important right now, as a new group, auditor, was added and installworld will fail otherwise.)

cd /usr/src
make installworld
mergemaster

Again, see the link I posted above for more detail

[molnarcs]

Hmm... I noticed one difference, delete inyour supfile setting. Mine looks like this:

*default host=cvsup.hu.FreeBSD.org
*default base=/var/db
*default prefix=/usr
*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_6
*default delete use-rel-suffix

Basically, the single line you have to edit is *default host=CHANGE_THIS.FreeBSD.org and RELENG_6 to RELENG_6_0 to get the sources with the latest security patches for your particular release. The sample supfiles are in /usr/share/examples/cvsup (you need standard-supfile).

Then, when you run cvsup standard-supfile it will populate your /usr/src.

# make -j 5 buildworld
# make buildkernel
# make installkernel
# make installworld

About -j 5 - do you have a multiple CPU machine? Because if you don't you don't need -j 5. The rest is correct, except that you need to reboot before make installworld into the new kernel, and in single user mode. If you installed FreeBSD, choose 4 from boot menu, if you installed PC-BSD, press any character during the 2 sec. countdown at boot, and enter "boot -s" to boot into single user mode. Than you have to mount your partitions (mount -a) and issue the make installworld command in /usr/src.

If you happen to upgrade this way from one release to another, you have to run mergemaster before make installworld, but for standard sec. updates for a particular release, that is not necessary (usually). Consult the FreeBSD handbook for more details.

[cc]

thanks a lot !

[antik]

Hmm... I noticed one difference, delete inyour supfile setting. Mine looks like this:

Code:

*default host=cvsup.hu.FreeBSD.org *default base=/var/db *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_6 *default delete use-rel-suffix

I suggest do not edit any supfile at all- just put all your overrides to /etc/make.conf.