Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 15:48:01 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org, tlambert@primenet.com Subject: Re: PATCH: partial fix for broken "make release"... Message-ID: <XFMail.010502154801.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20010502154108Q.jkh@osd.bsdi.com>
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On 02-May-01 Jordan Hubbard wrote:
> From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
> Subject: PATCH: partial fix for broken "make release"...
> Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 22:00:37 +0000 (GMT)
>
>> The "make release" stuff is broken, at least in 4.3, and possibly
>> before that.
>>
>> There are several obviously broken things:
>>
>> o The libssh stuff is not installed, and it is not built
>
> That would be a failure in make world, not make release.
He probably doesn't have src-crypto or cvs-crypto in his cvsup file. *shrug*
Works fine here and worked fine for the 4.3 release build.
>> o The files jade_1.2.1-13.diff.gz and pdf_sec.ps are not
>> available from any of the listed mirros in the "ports"
>
> That would be a failure in the ports collection, not make release.
Yes. Haven't seen this locally though, but I may have these files prefetched
to /usr/docdistfiles on the local snap building machine.
>> o If you set KERNCONF to a non-default value ("GENERIC" is
>> the default value), then sysinstall can't find it to
>
> I'm not clear as to why you'd want to? GENERIC is the best kernel for
> creating generally useable releases, but I imagine you have some other
> reason for chosing a specific configuration for which I also expect
> you're copying the config file into ${CHROOTDIR}/usr/src/sys/${ARCH}/conf
> from somewhere else? I can't see how this change by itself makes what
> appears to be the desired functionality a reality.
You could use LOCAL_PATCHES to do it if your patch created a new config file.
This would be appropriate if you were rolling an internal release using your
own kernel config. In that case his patches make sense.
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