[9front] System not up to date / in sync with repo after "sysupdate"

[9front] System not up to date / in sync with repo after "sysupdate"

[alex-ml]

Hello,

since I'm still not running "do not install", I followed these steps 
(from the fqa):

% sysupdate

% cd /
% /sys/lib/rootstub

% cd /sys/src
% mk install
% mk clean

% cd /sys/src/9/imx8
% mk install

After these steps and rebooting, another sysupdate states: "up to date". 
To double check, whether all worked as expected, I wanted to have a look 
at the last commit from Ori, regarding gefs in /sys/src/cmd/gefs/blk.c. 
But there is not even a directory "gefs" in /sys/src/cmd on my machine. 
What am I doing wrong? I am using a MNT Reform with a nightly build from 
a few weeks ago.

Thank you very much in advance!

Best regards,
Alex

Re: [9front] System not up to date / in sync with repo after "sysupdate"

[Arne Meyer]

Hi Alex,

this has happened to me.

Try the following first:

bind -ac /dist/plan9front /
git/revert /

If that fails you may have to get a working /dist/plan9front/.git from somewhere else, like the last *.iso.

Do the bind - git/revert dance again and follow that up with a sysupdate.

Greetings,
Arne

> alex-ml@posteo.de hat am 28.05.2024 11:24 CEST geschrieben:
> 
>  
> Hello,
> 
> since I'm still not running "do not install", I followed these steps 
> (from the fqa):
> 
> % sysupdate
> 
> % cd /
> % /sys/lib/rootstub
> 
> % cd /sys/src
> % mk install
> % mk clean
> 
> % cd /sys/src/9/imx8
> % mk install
> 
> After these steps and rebooting, another sysupdate states: "up to date". 
> To double check, whether all worked as expected, I wanted to have a look 
> at the last commit from Ori, regarding gefs in /sys/src/cmd/gefs/blk.c. 
> But there is not even a directory "gefs" in /sys/src/cmd on my machine. 
> What am I doing wrong? I am using a MNT Reform with a nightly build from 
> a few weeks ago.
> 
> Thank you very much in advance!
> 
> Best regards,
> Alex

Re: [9front] System not up to date / in sync with repo after "sysupdate"

[alex]

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Hello Arne, please excuse my late response and thank you very much for your help! :) I've tried to revert but it fails and since I don't know whether my data will be lost when reinstalling from iso every release (maybe I would need to ream my disk every time), I've got myself a used Dell Latitude where it worked fine. Maybe I should stick with Intel to learn and switch to ARM64 / RISC-V when I halfway know what I'm doing.. Many thanks again and best regards, Alex

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Re: [9front] System not up to date / in sync with repo after "sysupdate"

[Jacob Moody]

On 6/21/24 12:58, alex wrote:
> Hello Arne, please excuse my late response and thank you very much for your help! :) I've tried to revert but it fails and since I don't know whether my data will be lost when reinstalling from iso every release (maybe I would need to ream my disk every time), I've got myself a used Dell Latitude where it worked fine. Maybe I should stick with Intel to learn and switch to ARM64 / RISC-V when I halfway know what I'm doing.. Many thanks again and best regards, Alex

We'll need to know how it's failing. It's likely that for some reason your .git is borked, so as Arne suggested you should
bootstrap just the /dist/plan9front/.git from something like the latest iso, then git/revert, then pull new commits.

Also we do not have a working RISC-V release, so not sure what you're talking about there. The use of arm64 should have no impact on this.


Thanks,
moody

Re: [9front] System not up to date / in sync with repo after "sysupdate"

[alex]

Hello moody, 

is there any way I could find out or narrow down the cause? Would it be possible to boot from USB with a nightly build, copy /dist/plan9front/.git from there to another USB drive and copy it from there to the local install? (I would like to avoid a new installation if this phenomenon occurs.)

Thank you and best regards, 
Alex


Jacob Moody <moody@posixcafe.org> schrieb am Freitag, 21. Juni 2024 um 21:49:

> On 6/21/24 12:58, alex wrote:
> 
> > Hello Arne, please excuse my late response and thank you very much for your help! :) I've tried to revert but it fails and since I don't know whether my data will be lost when reinstalling from iso every release (maybe I would need to ream my disk every time), I've got myself a used Dell Latitude where it worked fine. Maybe I should stick with Intel to learn and switch to ARM64 / RISC-V when I halfway know what I'm doing.. Many thanks again and best regards, Alex
> 
> 
> We'll need to know how it's failing. It's likely that for some reason your .git is borked, so as Arne suggested you should
> bootstrap just the /dist/plan9front/.git from something like the latest iso, then git/revert, then pull new commits.
> 
> Also we do not have a working RISC-V release, so not sure what you're talking about there. The use of arm64 should have no impact on this.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> moody

Re: [9front] System not up to date / in sync with repo after "sysupdate"

[ori]

Quoth alex <alex9-ml@proton.me>:
> is there any way I could find out or narrow down the cause?

cause of *what*? you haven't told us what's going wrong yet.

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