On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 09:08:54PM +0000, Mike wrote:
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> Hello,
>
> After a fresh install of obsd on a new server, I cannot update my system to 
> -stable.
>
> The src has been obtained from cvs in the usual manner.
>
> Here is the error :-
>
> # cd /usr/src/sys/arch/sparc64/conf/
> # ls
> CVS                 GENERIC.MP          RAMDISK             RAMDISKU5
> GENERIC             Makefile.sparc64    RAMDISKU1           files.sparc64
> # config GENERIC
> ../../../../conf/files:1005: syntax error
> ../../../../conf/files:1006: syntax error
> ../../../../conf/files:1007: syntax error
> ../../../../conf/files:1008: syntax error
> ../../../../conf/files:1009: syntax error
> ../../../../conf/files:1010: syntax error
> ../../../../conf/files:1011: syntax error
> ../../../../conf/files:1012: syntax error
> ../../../../conf/files:1013: syntax error
> ../../../../conf/files:1014: syntax error
> ../../../../conf/files:1015: syntax error
> ../../../../conf/files:1016: syntax error
> ../../../../conf/files:1017: syntax error
> ../../../../conf/files:1018: syntax error
> ../../../../conf/files:1019: syntax error
> ../../../../conf/files:1020: syntax error
> ../../../../conf/files:1021: syntax error
> ../../../../conf/files:1022: syntax error
> ../../../../conf/files:1023: syntax error
> ../../../../conf/files:1024: syntax error
> ../../../../conf/files:1025: syntax error
> ../../../../conf/files:1026: syntax error
> ../../../../conf/files:1027: syntax error
> ../../../../conf/files:1028: syntax error
> ../../../../conf/files:1029: syntax error
> ../../../../conf/files:1030: syntax error
> ../../../../conf/files:1031: syntax error
> ../../../../conf/files:1032: syntax error
> ../../../../conf/files:1033: syntax error
> ../../../../conf/files:1034: syntax error
> ../../../../conf/files:1035: syntax error
> ../../../../conf/files:1036: syntax error
> ../../../../conf/files:1037: syntax error
> ../../../../conf/files:1038: syntax error
> *** Stop.
> # uname -a
> OpenBSD atom 4.2 GENERIC#1427 sparc64
>
> Am i missing something obvious?  This has not occured on 4.2
>
> Cheers, Mike
>

Well, the error is pretty obvious. Whatever you did, you are on 
OpenBSD 4.2 trying to build OpenBSD 4.3.
This doesn't work.

-- 
Pierre Riteau