Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:05:40 GMT From: Jason Helfman <jhelfman@e-e.com> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: docs/140490: Add custom kernel information to Release Engineering Article Message-ID: <200911111905.nABJ5eQK001189@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200911111910.nABJA1Dv054248@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 140490
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: Add custom kernel information to Release Engineering Article
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Wed Nov 11 19:10:01 UTC 2009
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Jason Helfman
>Release: FreeBSD 7.2
>Organization:
Experts Exchange
>Environment:
FreeBSD eggman.experts-exchange.com 7.2-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p4 #0: Fri Oct 2 12:21:39 UTC 2009 root@i386-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
>Description:
Add custom kernel instructions to Releng Article.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
Patch attached with submission follows:
--- article.sgml.orig 2009-06-24 15:25:26.000000000 -0700
+++ article.sgml 2009-11-11 11:01:26.000000000 -0800
@@ -798,6 +798,17 @@
should be made bootable so that users of modern PCs do not
need to create installation floppy disks.</para>
+ <para>If a custom kernel of &os; is to be included, then
+ &man.sysinstall.8; and &man.release.7; must be updated to
+ include installation instructions. The relevant code is contained
+ in <filename>src/release</filename> and <filename>src/usr.sbin/sysinstall</filename>.
+ Specifically, the file <filename>src/release/Makefile</filename>, and
+ <filename>dist.c</filename>, <filename>dist.h</filename>,
+ <filename>menus.c</filename>, <filename>install.c</filename>, and
+ <filename>Makefile</filename> will need to be updated under
+ <filename>src/usr.sbin/sysinstall</filename>. Optionally, you may choose
+ to update <filename>sysinstall.8</filename>.</para>
+
<para>If an alternate version of &xfree86; is to be provided, then
&man.sysinstall.8; must be updated to reflect the new location
and installation instructions. The relevant code is contained
>Release-Note:
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