From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Oct 18 18:13:47 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA13538 for stable-outgoing; Sat, 18 Oct 1997 18:13:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable) Received: from bob.tri-lakes.net ([207.3.81.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id SAA13528 for ; Sat, 18 Oct 1997 18:13:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cdillon@tri-lakes.net) Received: from [207.3.81.149] by bob.tri-lakes.net (NTMail 3.02.13) with ESMTP id qa306218 for ; Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:13:45 -0500 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.1 [p0] on FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Sat, 18 Oct 1997 19:52:41 -0000 (GMT) From: Chris Dillon To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Making a release... Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I've looked through the handbook and can't find out just HOW to make a release. Looking through /usr/src/release/Makefile got me on the right path, but I still can't get it to work. Lets say, for instance, i want to make a release relative to /usr/RELEASE, and call it 2.2.5-BETA. I use cvsup, if that matters, to update the source tree almost daily. On the command line, the CHROOTDIR, BUILDNAME, RELEASETAG, and CVSROOT can and/or need to be set. CHROOTDIR and BUILDNAME are rather self-explanatory. The last to are not, to me at least. I've tried this and it doesn't work: make release CHROOTDIR=/usr/RELEASE BUILDNAME=2.2.5-BETA RELEASETAG=RELENG_2_2 CVSROOT=/usr It failed on something like "/usr/CVSROOT does not exist". Hmm.. I think I'll try CVSROOT=/ next time.. anyway.. More detailed instructions from someone would still be great. This could make a good handbook topic. The purpose of me doing this is to try and help out a bit and making sure everything gets installed correctly. (I hope there's enough time left.. I'll do it tonight if possible). I would just futz around with it a few times and figure it out myself normally, but release time isn't too far away. :-) Yay! --- Chris Dillon --- cdillon@tri-lakes.net --- Powered by FreeBSD, the best free OS on the planet ---- (http://www.freebsd.org)