Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 16:09:39 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Howard Jones <howie@thingy.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: print-cdrom-packages.sh?? Message-ID: <20060521200939.GA41613@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <44686D93.3020701@thingy.com> References: <44686D93.3020701@thingy.com>
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--OgqxwSJOaUobr8KG Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 01:01:23PM +0100, Howard Jones wrote: > Moving on with my automated installs, I want to build some additional=20 > packages into the FTP area of my install server, which was seeded from=20 > the 6.1-RELEASE ISOs. >=20 > The "FreeBSD Release Engineering for Third Party Software Packages"=20 > document on the FreeBSD website says that the release-building process=20 > uses a script called print-cdrom-packages.sh to produce the list of=20 > packages to build. However, my source tree doesn't have this script, and= =20 > a look in CVS suggests that it's no longer in use, and hasn't been since= =20 > March 2005 (Revision 1.71, Mon Mar 21 19:19:24 2005 UTC - Retire=20 > print-cdrom-packages.sh as it has been replaced.). >=20 > Is there any current documentation for how the package building process= =20 > is done? Or am I looking at the wrong URL?=20 > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng-packages/artic= le.html >=20 > Ultimately, I'll want to rebuild all the packages, so just getting the=20 > few extras I need right now doesn't really help. I intend to use 'make=20 > release' to keep a 6_RELENG install with fairly current packages=20 > available for new servers, so I don't need to do so much rebuilding=20 > immediately after a fresh install. >=20 > Thanks in advance for any pointers, or even any "don't do that, do this= =20 > instead"-type advice. There's now a python script somewhere in release/ that replaced it and does a better job. It should be easy to find, and once you have it can you submit a PR requesting the article be updated? Kris --OgqxwSJOaUobr8KG Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEcMkDWry0BWjoQKURArGWAKCIxtpaO3GD68XfxjG1c/esyxcrXQCgmowQ UjxGLdEhLXzXZ6N/9jFEKec= =/F2f -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --OgqxwSJOaUobr8KG--
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