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Mateusz Piotrowski 1655b2314e Mount devfs inside a beinstall(8) chroot 
It turns out that without /dev/null beinstall is not able to complete and
instead exits with messages similar to these:

  --------------------------------------------------------------
  >>> Installing kernel GENERIC completed on Sun Oct 25 17:47:37 CET 2020
  --------------------------------------------------------------
  /tmp/beinstall.JleGoP/mnt: Inspecting dirs /usr/src /usr/obj/usr/src/amd64.amd64
  --- installworld ---
  make[1]: "/usr/obj/usr/src/amd64.amd64/toolchain-metadata.mk" line 1: Using cached toolchain metadata from build at t480 on Sun Oct 25 15:53:28 CET 2020
  make[2]: "/dev/null" line 2: Need an operator
  make[2]: Fatal errors encountered -- cannot continuemake[1]: "/usr/src/Makefile.inc1" line 593: CPUTYPE global should be set with ?=.
  Cleaning up ...
  umount -f /tmp/beinstall.JleGoP/mnt/usr/src /tmp/beinstall.JleGoP/mnt/usr/obj/usr/src/amd64.amd64 /tmp/beinstall.JleGoP/mnt
  Destroyed successfully
  error: Installworld failed!

Upon a bit of debugging, it turns out that /dev/null inside the chroot
environment is full random bytes, which cause "make -f /dev/null" to
misbehave. Mounting a proper devfs inside the chroot seems to be the most
appropriate way to fix it.

will@ also noted that this change requires that whatever is needed in devfs
must exist in the old kernel.

Approved by:	will
MFC after:	2 week
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26944
2020-10-27 09:32:06 +00:00
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boot Speciy the dev in an easily changed variable 2020-09-28 06:00:56 +00:00
bsdbox bsdbox: fix build after recent libifconfig changes 2020-09-21 19:50:39 +00:00
build Mount devfs inside a beinstall(8) chroot 2020-10-27 09:32:06 +00:00
bus_space Add support for Python 3 and make it the default. 2019-06-30 02:29:12 +00:00
coccinelle copystr(9): Move to deprecate (attempt #2) 2020-05-25 16:40:48 +00:00
debugscripts since kld_deb.py was removed a while back, this script isn't useful 2020-08-11 22:33:56 +00:00
diag The fsdb(8) utility uses the fsck_ffs(8) disk I/O interfaces, so 2020-09-19 20:06:12 +00:00
ifnet
kerneldoc ice(4): Introduce new driver for Intel E800 Ethernet controllers 2020-05-26 23:35:10 +00:00
LibraryReport
lua Move ifconfig SFP status functionality into libifconfig 2020-08-09 16:27:28 +00:00
pkgbase Add pkgbase METALOG parse/check tool 2020-05-10 16:11:19 +00:00
regression Do a sweep and remove most WARNS=6 settings 2020-10-01 01:10:51 +00:00
sched Add a dtrace script for collecting schedgraph data 2016-11-18 02:29:09 +00:00
test Do a sweep and remove most WARNS=6 settings 2020-10-01 01:10:51 +00:00
tools Fix various warnings with higher WARNS. 2020-10-13 22:20:03 +00:00
uma/smrstress Fix the smrstress build after r358400. 2020-08-05 17:26:20 +00:00
install.sh Fix handling -U. It does not take any arguments. 2017-11-27 02:28:40 +00:00
make_libdeps.sh Improve the library dependencies helper script in src/tools. 2017-11-16 15:26:39 +00:00
README
tinder.sh Remove the old depend (mkdep) code and make FAST_DEPEND the one true way. 2016-03-30 23:50:23 +00:00

README 

$FreeBSD$

This directory tree contains tools used for the maintenance and
testing of FreeBSD.  There is no toplevel Makefile structure since
these tools are not meant to be built as part of the standard system,
though there may be individual Makefiles in some of the subdirs.

Please read the README files in the subdirs for further information.