On Mon, 10 Mar 2025, at 23:13, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: > Hi, > > make installworld runs git again but if build as user and owning the > files as user and installing as root that gives the obvious warning: > > make[1]: "/usr/obj/usr/src/amd64.amd64/toolchain-metadata.mk" line 1: > Using cached toolchain metadata from build at lab-top on Mon Mar 10 > 22:35:33 UTC 2025 > fatal: detected dubious ownership in repository at '/usr/src' > To add an exception for this directory, call: > > git config --global --add safe.directory /usr/src > make[1]: "/usr/src/Makefile.inc1" line 601: warning: Command > "/usr/local/bin/git -C /usr/src show -s --format=%ct HEAD" exited with > status 128
We can use: /usr/local/bin/git -c safe.directory=/usr/src \ -C /usr/src show -s --format=%ct HEAD which would avoid that, https://reviews.freebsd.org/D49316 > What do we need these timestamps for when doing an installworld? I guess its reproducible builds, hence basing it off the commit's timestamp, not the filesystem. > People used to have /usr/src ro and and the obj directories once build > is done too. We've long lost that but given we are so much after > reproducability maybe people should try this again... This works for me today, at least with beinstall.sh its how I upgrade my arm64 router from its bigger server, over RO nfs. A+ Dave
