From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jul 31 5:45:35 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F2F437BCFE; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 05:45:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gehicks.dyndns.org (adsl-20-178-98.asm.bellsouth.net [66.20.178.98]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B170C440DF; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 05:42:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gehicks@gehicks.dyndns.org) Received: from mac (mac [10.0.0.13]) by gehicks.dyndns.org (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g6VCf4eY004681; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 12:41:04 GMT (envelope-from gehicks@gehicks.dyndns.org) Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 08:33:38 -0400 Subject: Re: Comments on Release Building for -current Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v482) Cc: , To: From: W Gerald Hicks In-Reply-To: <022301c2387b$a8abf610$020aa8c0@aims.private> Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.482) Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Yup, it's been reported several times by various people and it seems everyone who can help is too busy to care. "This isn't fun anymore". :-( -- Jerry Hicks On Wednesday, July 31, 2002, at 06:18 AM, Chris Knight wrote: > Howdy, > > As the snapshot manager at snapshots.jp.freebsd.org would be aware, > current's release building capability is woeful to say the least. A fair > bit of tidying up will need to be done for DP2. > I've managed to complete a successful release build of current with a > checkout of two days ago. For those interested, here's what I had to do: > > the mfsroot floppy contents were too large > FIX: > - edit /usr/src/release/i386/drivers.conf and move the following drivers > from floppy 2 to floppy3: aue, cue, em, kue, sk, ti, wb, xe, and the > SYSV stuff > - edit /usr/src/release/scripts/driver-copy2.awk to not error when it > encounters the floppy 3 candidates > > the kern floppy contents were too large > FIX: > - edit /usr/src/release/i386/dokern.sh and get sed to remove more > drivers from MFSROOT. The drivers are: eisa, ahb, isp, ses > > the fixit floppy contents were too large > FIX: > - edit /usr/src/release/i386/fixit_crunch.conf and remove the following > programs: mount_msdosfs restore rrestore telnet > > As you can see, all three 1.44MB floppies run out of space. With the > above changes, the build just scrapes by. I'd imagine that the changes > I made still wouldn't be enough for a release build to be successful > for PC98 or Alpha. > I'm happy to help resolve the release building issue if anybody is > interested. > > Regards, > Chris Knight > Systems Administrator > AIMS Independent Computer Professionals > Tel: +61 3 6334 6664 Fax: +61 3 6331 7032 Mob: +61 419 528 795 > Web: http://www.aims.com.au > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message