Subject: Re: 3.0 upgrade failed
To: David Laight <port-i386@NetBSD.org, david@l8s.co.uk>
From: Hubert Feyrer <hubertf@gmx.de>
List: port-i386
Date: 04/23/2006 20:17:38
In article <20060408193537.GX29748@snowdrop.l8s.co.uk> you wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 08,> You will probably need to boot the install media and exit (^C) to a shell
> to find out what actually happened.  Only then can a fix be sorted.

One of the problems in sysinst upgrading i was told about is when using it 
with newbtconf(8): the files that sysinst checks for are turned into 
symlinks there, and sysinst just doesn't see the files and thinks "no file 
-> install from scratch".

Looking at sysinst's util.c, it seems to use stat(2), which _should_ 
DTRT...


 - Hubert