From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Aug 2 5:42:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84AB737B7E9 for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 05:42:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA36056; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 14:42:46 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from olli) Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 14:42:46 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <200008021242.OAA36056@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: making a RELEASE [should make buildworld made before?] X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-stable In-Reply-To: <8m92s4$8l2$1@atlantis.rz.tu-clausthal.de> Organization: Administration TU Clausthal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: tin/1.4.1-19991201 ("Polish") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/3.4-19991219-STABLE (i386)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In list.freebsd-stable Domas Mituzas wrote: > Btw, I missed to find, that "make buildworld" is mandatory before make > release (It failed in several places, if I didn't build the > world). Therefore, during make release world is recompiled at least two > times. Is it a normal operation? Yes. The second time, the world is built with the new world inside the chroot tree. This makes sure that you get reproducible results, no matter what OS version is running outside the chroot (as long as it can compile the sources at all). Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Addresses will change soon!! If in doubt: www.fromme.com "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Terry Pratchett) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message