Cannot make core: tar: Option -f requires an argument about tools HOT 15 CLOSED

Not sure what your tools.git commit is, but you'll need to run:

# make ports
# make packages

before core will build. Recent commits will get the drift.

Also note this tweak for better reporting:

# make core VERBOSE=please

There is no unstaged out of band build for core at the moment, meaning the build system wants to build all the parts including kernel, base, ports and plugins.

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There is no unstaged out of band build for core at the moment, meaning the build system wants to build all the parts including kernel, base, ports and plugins.

Ah, that's what I wanted to avoid. base has never been compiled.

Does that mean that it's unsafe to only update core and that base+kernel have to be updated at the same time?

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Try the latest commits on tools:

# make prefetch-kernel,base,packages VERSION=16.1
# make core-master

Pew pew :) Only problem is that core package will be pushed into the /tmp/sets/packages-* archive. Please look at the tools README for details. Everything is documented.

I have ideas about inline packaging, but I was still pondering whether the tools.git should or should not be required in this case.

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OK so the required packages were downloaded to /tmp/sets/

-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   3.5K Jan 28 12:32 base-16.1-amd64.obsolete
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    44M Jan 28 12:33 base-16.1-amd64.txz
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    23M Jan 28 12:34 kernel-16.1-amd64.txz
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel   512B Feb  2 15:13 .
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   167M Feb  2 15:13 packages-16.1.1_6-OpenSSL-amd64.tar

and I have a core package at /usr/obj/stage/.pkg-new/All/opnsense-16.1.txz

But this seems to be the old version, not the newer 16.1.1. So how do we get the latest core package?

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The sets are there to set up the build jail, the latest core package is built by what I wrote:

# make core-master

("master" is the branch or tag name or commit hash, e.g.

# make core-16.1.1

)

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Thanks.
The thing that I missed was that the new packages were in /tmp/sets/packages-16.1.1_6-OpenSSL-amd64.tar. That's because a package with a very similar name was downloaded as part of the prefetch command, but those were the previous packages.

So that process works to update the GUI without touching anything else 👍

Maybe the Readme should be altered to indicate that make core can't be run on it's own?

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It can. The build system supports progress markers and automatic skipping plus dependency tracking since 16.1-ish.

If you type "make core" after prefetching everything, it'll tell you it has nothing to do.

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Also see the actual target dependency that glues e.g. "make everything" together...

https://github.com/opnsense/tools/blob/master/Makefile#L36-L39

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It can. The build system supports progress markers and automatic skipping plus dependency tracking since 16.1-ish.
If you type "make core" after prefetching everything, it'll tell you it has nothing to do.

That's what I mean. There are pre-requirements. Those won't be automatically resolved when doing make core. I had to prefetch base, kernel and packages

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You're right, I've tightened the dependency chain in the referenced commit. Can you recheck?

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BUT: prefetching will always remain a manual operation

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BUT: prefetching will always remain a manual operation

That's what I think should be added to the Readme, because without doing a prefetch, I still get tar: Option -f requires an argument. The packages need to be there, but it's not obvious that base and kernel have to be made available to build core.

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With the last commit and no prefetch "make core" starts to build the base system.
After prefetch or "make packages" I get an instant ">>> Packages (core) are up to date" with "make core".

prefetch, like distfiles, is a convenience tool and will not be part of the actual build description.

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Of course it works better if I actually fetch the commit.

All good now, thanks.

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Thanks for double-checking :)

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