From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Aug 2 6:46:23 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 DD5BA37B957 for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 06:46:09 -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 PAA37121; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 15:46:07 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from olli) Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 15:46:07 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <200008021346.PAA37121@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: making a RELEASE X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-stable In-Reply-To: <8m95uf$af4$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 Plamen Petkov wrote: > From all of this 'make a RELEASE' threath I realize the following: > > 1. I cvsup-ed all the sources If you intend to "make release", then that's not enough. You need the full CVS repository, not just a checked-out source tree. On the other hand, you could hack the release Makefile to just copy /usr/src instead of checking it out from the repository (obviously, this only works if yout /usr/src is exactly the same version as the release that you're going to make, but this is usually the case). I've done that before. It also speeds up the "make release" quite a bit. > 3. However I can not have it on a CD, just to have it on a safe place ? > > Just imagine: some big crash and I have to start again from my last > FreeBSD Release (currently 4.0-R on a CDROM I purchased from > www.cdrom.com) step by step toward 'current' -STABLE ... It is just one step. Install from your 4.0-R CD (soon to be 4.1-R, I guess), then CVSup -stable, make world, done. Apart from that: You do have a backup, don't you? So in case of a serious crash, you can just restore from your backup. That's what backups are good for. ;-) 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