Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 00:45:13 +0200 From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@portaone.com> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Building 4.x releases on 5.x and 6.x Message-ID: <41D33379.10203@portaone.com> In-Reply-To: <20041229222536.GD36053@ip.net.ua> References: <41D31B8E.7030305@portaone.com> <41D31CEE.5040803@wadham.ox.ac.uk> <41D31EC9.5050909@portaone.com> <20041229222536.GD36053@ip.net.ua>
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Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > Hi Maxim, > > One thing you'll definitely need is to install the Perl port in > LOCAL_SCRIPT. Mounting /dev (much like the RELENG_5 and HEAD > versions of release/Makefile do) will also be needed. Note that > you should be using the 4.x version of release/Makefile* to > start "make release", and use WORLDDIR to point to your > /usr/src, something like this: > > cd /tmp > cvs co -rRELENG_4 -l release > cd /usr/src/release > make -f /tmp/Makefile release ... Do you mean that I need to have 5.x/6.x in /usr/src pointed to by WORLDDIR, while 4.x in /tmp/src and start making release in /tmp/src/release? I am not sure about perl, why do I need it? Isn't initial make buildworld expected to build it and install into pristive chroot'ed tree? -Maxim
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