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Date:      Wed, 3 Jul 2002 00:09:52 -0400
From:      Brian Reichert <reichert@numachi.com>
To:        Makoto Matsushita <matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        reichert@numachi.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 'make release' tries to build a port?
Message-ID:  <20020703000952.N262@numachi.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020703113304N.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org>; from matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org on Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 11:33:04AM %2B0900
References:  <200207022247.g62Ml00M008526@gw.catspoiler.org> <200207022247.g62Ml00M008526@gw.catspoiler.org> <20020702213630.M262@numachi.com> <20020703113304N.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org>

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On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 11:33:04AM +0900, Makoto Matsushita wrote:
> 
> src/release/Makefile assumes that src/release directory is actually
> /usr/src/release.  It seems that your source code location is /home/src.

I hoped hoped that symlinks would solve that problem. :/

> reichert>   /usr/bin/time make release \
> reichert>     CHROOTDIR=/home/release \
> reichert>     BUILDNAME=4.5-RELEASE  \
> reichert>     CVSROOT=/home/ncvs \
> reichert>     RELEASETAG=RELENG_4_5_0_RELEASE
> 
> DOCDISTFILES=/your/ports/distfile/directory will help you.  Note that
> this variable name is changed to 'RELEASEDISTFILES' in recent 4-stable.
> 
> If you want to learn more about "make release", read release(7) manual
> available in recent 4-stable.  Also src/release/Makefile will help you:)

Ah, thank you for the pointer!  My only other one was:

  http://people.freebsd.org/~murray/#publications

  The Release Engineering of FreeBSD 4.4, Conference Proceedings,
  BSDCon Europe 2001

A very helpful PDF file...

Off I go, for more poking...

> -- -
> Makoto `MAR' Matsushita

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