From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 14 20:42:27 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DD0D16A4CE for ; Fri, 14 Nov 2003 20:42:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp1.adl2.internode.on.net (smtp1.adl2.internode.on.net [203.16.214.181]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B88943FA3 for ; Fri, 14 Nov 2003 20:42:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from midget.dons.net.au (ppp110-132.lns1.adl1.internode.on.net [150.101.110.132])hAF4gNTn096973; Sat, 15 Nov 2003 15:12:23 +1030 (CST) Received: from localhost (root@localhost.dons.net.au [127.0.0.1]) by midget.dons.net.au (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hAF4gLlT032178; Sat, 15 Nov 2003 15:12:21 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Clifton Royston , hackers@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 15:12:19 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: <20031114113705.D5759@tikitechnologies.com> In-Reply-To: <20031114113705.D5759@tikitechnologies.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200311151512.20032.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -5 () IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SIGNATURE_SHORT_DENSE,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01,USER_AGENT,USER_AGENT_KMAIL X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.26 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) Subject: Re: Observations on make release process? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 04:42:27 -0000 X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 04:42:27 -0000 On Saturday 15 November 2003 08:07, Clifton Royston wrote: > I have some observations fairly fresh in my mind from trying to build > a version of FreeBSD 4.8.12 with the IBM Propolice anti-stack-smash > patch. This was intended as a quick prelude to trying to build our own > internal release with a reduced set of base binaries, different > packages available on CD for install, etc. However, I certainly ran > into more pitfalls than I expected along the way, and a lot less detail > and more handwaving than I expected in the docs I could find. I have a procedure for make release -> http://www.gsoft.com.au/~doconnor/FreeBSD-release-2.html but the way I do it is not 'normal' - I don't use the CVS repo because I can't commit into that tree (and local CVS hacks make my head hurt) so I check out and modify the source in /usr/src, build it and test then after I'm happy with it I make release with a patch to copy the source instead of checking it out. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5