Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 21:02:54 +1100 From: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> To: William Denton <buff@pobox.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Building my own release Message-ID: <20030317100254.GF1200@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20030316224453.L50008-100000@as2.dm.egate.net> References: <20030316224453.L50008-100000@as2.dm.egate.net>
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On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 11:04:09PM -0500, William Denton wrote:
>I was having a hell of a time downloading ISO images of 4.8-RC1 or 5.0 to
>install on an old machine I just got--they'd freeze, no matter what mirror
>I used--so I thought I'd try making my own release and ISO images. I
>could compile everything here, burn a CD, and I'd be all set.
You might find it easier to install the machine from an old CD-ROM
and the use installworld on an NFS mounted /usr/{src,obj}.
>I read release (7), and looked the examples, but I'm still not sure what
>to do. I used the sample cvs-supfile to download all the CVS files, but
>then I got stuck. The release man page says this was used to build
>4.5-RELEASE:
>
> cd /usr
> cvs co -rRELENG_4_5_0_RELEASE src
Use "cvs co -rRELENG_4 src" for -STABLE. Leave off "-r" for -CURRENT. If
you don't have CVSROOT defined, you'll need
cvs -d /your/cvsroot -R co -rRELENG_4 -P src
The '-R' is optional but will make it run much faster (it disables the
repository locking) and '-P' will remove empty directories. Note that
this step will over-write your /usr/src - pick a different parent
directory (the cd above) if you want to preserve an existing /usr/src.
> cd src
> make buildworld
> cd release
> make release CHROOTDIR=/local3/release BUILDNAME=4.5-RELEASE \
> CVSROOT=/host/cvs/usr/home/ncvs RELEASETAG=RELENG_4_5_0_RELEASE
For -STABLE, this should be:
make release CHROOTDIR=/somewhere/with/lots/of/space \
BUILDNAME=4.8-PRERELEASE \
CVSROOT=/your/cvsroot \
RELEASETAG=RELENG_4
That all looks reasonably correct (though I haven't used it for a while).
Peter
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