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Subject: Re: Some questions on 'make release'
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John Baldwin wrote:
> On Tuesday 21 April 2009 4:17:53 am Manolis Kiagias wrote:
>   
>> in the iso.1 target to print the values of CD and CD_DISC1_PKGS variables:
>>
>> echo "CD is ${CD}"
>> echo "CD_DISC1_PKGS is ${CD_DISC1_PKGS}"
>>
>> Running the make release I can see the "Creating iso images..." but not
>> any of my messages. It is as if another copy of the Makefile is executed
>> (without the changes).
>> (Note I switched from EXTSRCDIR to a real CVSROOT, so it is not my
>> /usr/src that is copied to the release work area)
>>     
>
> Right, the release process chroot's into your release area and then uses 
> that /usr/src/release/Makefile for the extra targets.  You can build the 
> release once and then just update the release Makefile in the chroot area and 
> use 'make rerelease' for testing.
>
>   

Thank you John. You were right of course, the Makefile that continues to
execute is the one inside the CHROOTDIR.
And in fact my original problem is exactly that: I was not thinking in
terms of the chroot.
Reading the Makefile, CD_DISC1_PKGS = ${CD_PACKAGE_TREE}/disc1 but
CD_PACKAGE_TREE refers to a chroot directory, just like every other CD_*
variable in there. I was using CD_PACKAGE_TREE=/usr/area/packages, a
completely unrelated path.

As for make rerelease, I tried it with the RELEASENOUPDATE option,  but
apparently the CD_DISC*_PKGS do not get defined.  It would be trivial to
hack a solution though.