From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 20 00:40:26 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 3262F16A4CE for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2004 00:40:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from phantom.cris.net (phantom.cris.net [212.110.130.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2DC143D2F for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2004 00:40:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ru@FreeBSD.org.ua) Received: from phantom.cris.net (ru@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by phantom.cris.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i0K8evjm056817; Tue, 20 Jan 2004 10:40:58 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from ru@FreeBSD.org.ua) Received: (from ru@localhost) by phantom.cris.net (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i0K8erUo056806; Tue, 20 Jan 2004 10:40:53 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from ru) Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 10:40:52 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: Colin Percival Message-ID: <20040120084052.GB56714@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> <6.0.1.1.1.20040120013116.0481d2c8@imap.sfu.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="IiVenqGWf+H9Y6IX" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6.0.1.1.1.20040120013116.0481d2c8@imap.sfu.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1i cc: stable@freebsd.org 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 08:40:26 -0000 --IiVenqGWf+H9Y6IX Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 01:43:42AM +0000, Colin Percival wrote: > 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. >=20 > That's what NetBSD uses it for. :) >=20 > >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. ;) >=20 > Not really -- `make release` needs to chroot, and non-root users > can't do that. >=20 I know, that's why I wrote "get us closer". ;-) Still, the idea is to implement the "developer" mode "make release" that wouldn't require root privileges, and file system creation is the biggest show stopper. > >> 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. ;) >=20 > You'd better try it yourself -- I don't have convenient access to > a machine for release-building right now. >=20 > >Also, it would be nice to backport it to FreeBSD. >=20 > 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. >=20 I somehow don't like the idea to use ports stuff to build src/ bits, so if we decide to switch to using it, it gets probably contributed to src/ anyway. > > And I suspect > >it doesn't work with UFS2, does it? (We don't need it for releases > >presently, but anyway.) >=20 > It does: makefs -o version=3D2 foo.img /path/to/files/ >=20 Cool! Cheers, --=20 Ruslan Ermilov FreeBSD committer ru@FreeBSD.org --IiVenqGWf+H9Y6IX Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFADOmTUkv4P6juNwoRAlNlAJ0eRMY11GlaGWwYhI0GtwhulTelgQCfTBk4 X/YdJwLPRo4KS3P1oLQy5n0= =3HPZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --IiVenqGWf+H9Y6IX--