From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 19 17:43:52 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51AF416A4CE for ; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 17:43:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from tx1.oucs.ox.ac.uk (tx1.oucs.ox.ac.uk [129.67.1.167]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A98E143D2F for ; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 17:43:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk) Received: from scan1.oucs.ox.ac.uk ([129.67.1.166] helo=localhost) by tx1.oucs.ox.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 1Aikvj-0006nI-ID for stable@freebsd.org; Tue, 20 Jan 2004 01:43:47 +0000 Received: from rx1.oucs.ox.ac.uk ([129.67.1.165]) by localhost (scan1.oucs.ox.ac.uk [129.67.1.166]) (amavisd-new, port 25) with ESMTP id 25975-04 for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2004 01:43:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: from gateway.wadham.ox.ac.uk ([163.1.161.253]) by rx1.oucs.ox.ac.uk with smtp (Exim 4.20) id 1Aikvj-0006me-4G for stable@freebsd.org; Tue, 20 Jan 2004 01:43:47 +0000 Received: (qmail 13899 invoked by uid 0); 20 Jan 2004 01:43:47 -0000 Received: from colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk by gateway by uid 71 with qmail-scanner-1.16 (sweep: 2.14/3.71. spamassassin: 2.53. Clear:. Processed in 1.672715 secs); 20 Jan 2004 01:43:47 -0000 X-Qmail-Scanner-Mail-From: colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk via gateway X-Qmail-Scanner: 1.16 (Clear:. Processed in 1.672715 secs) Received: from dhcp1131.wadham.ox.ac.uk (HELO piii600.wadham.ox.ac.uk) (163.1.161.131) by gateway.wadham.ox.ac.uk with SMTP; 20 Jan 2004 01:43:45 -0000 Message-Id: <6.0.1.1.1.20040120013116.0481d2c8@imap.sfu.ca> X-Sender: cperciva@imap.sfu.ca (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.1.1 Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 01:43:42 +0000 To: Ruslan Ermilov From: Colin Percival In-Reply-To: <20040119102834.GD41159@FreeBSD.org.ua> References: <20040118141444.GG51708@sirius.firepipe.net> <20040118235148M.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> <20040119092819.GA41159@FreeBSD.org.ua> <6.0.1.1.1.20040119094517.04743ea8@imap.sfu.ca> <20040119102834.GD41159@FreeBSD.org.ua> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed cc: stable@freebsd.org cc: Colin Percival Subject: Re: Fix make release for 4-STABLE X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 01:43:52 -0000 At 10:28 19/01/2004, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: >On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 09:47:45AM +0000, Colin Percival wrote: > > I've already mentioned this to re@, but if there's a real need > > for space-saving, using NetBSD's makefs (ports/sysutils/makefs) > > >Cool! At a glance it looks like what we need to fully support >cross-arch releases, as it supports different byte-ordering. That's what NetBSD uses it for. :) >It could also be used to get us closer to "fixing" release/ to not >require "root" privileges -- it could be a very useful feature for >developers with non-root access on fast machine. ;) Not really -- `make release` needs to chroot, and non-root users can't do that. > > saves about 23k on the mfsroot floppy. > > >I wonder if this 23k difference is on 5-CURRENT or 4-STABLE, or both? >If it is on 5-CURRENT only, does the following patch for FreeBSD's >newfs(8) make any difference: >[snip] >If you don't bite me, I will try it myself. ;) You'd better try it yourself -- I don't have convenient access to a machine for release-building right now. >Also, it would be nice to backport it to FreeBSD. Isn't the port good enough? Many people seem to have an urge to add stuff into base, but all that does is create more work. > And I suspect >it doesn't work with UFS2, does it? (We don't need it for releases >presently, but anyway.) It does: makefs -o version=2 foo.img /path/to/files/ Colin Percival