On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 10:14:07PM -0800, Brian Stark wrote:
  | Hi,
  | 
  | I updated my CVS sources today and while building a release I came across
  | this error:
  |
  |	[...]
  |
  | /usr/src/tools/obj.i386/tools.NetBSD-1.6K-i386/bin/nbmake checkflist
  | DESTDIR=/export/destdir/NetBSD-20030316/i386  MACHINE=i386 MACHINE_ARCH=i386  MAKE=/usr/src/tools/obj.i386/tools.NetBSD-1.6K-i386/bin/nbmake MTREE=/usr/src/tools/obj.i386/tools.NetBSD-1.6K-i386/bin/nbmtree PAX=/usr/src/tools/obj.i386/tools.NetBSD-1.6K-i386/bin/nbpax sh /usr/src/distrib/sets/checkflist
  | 15493,15499d15492
  | < ./var/db/obsolete/base
  | < ./var/db/obsolete/comp
  | < ./var/db/obsolete/etc
  | < ./var/db/obsolete/games
  | < ./var/db/obsolete/man
  | < ./var/db/obsolete/misc
  | < ./var/db/obsolete/text
  | checkflist: flist inconsistencies found
  | checkflist: key to output:
  |   <  file is in flist but missing from DESTDIR
  |      (file wasn't installed ?)
  |   >  file is in DESTDIR but missing from flist
  |      (file is obsolete or flist is out of date ?)
  | *** Error code 1

It appears that the top-level "do-obsolete rule" wasn't run to
populate /var/db/obsolete.  Is your src/Makefile at least rev 1.200?