From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 4 06:32:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id GAA00827 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 4 Jan 1998 06:32:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from phoenix.its.rpi.edu (dec@phoenix.its.rpi.edu [128.113.161.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id GAA00818 for ; Sun, 4 Jan 1998 06:32:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dec@phoenix.its.rpi.edu) Received: from localhost (dec@localhost) by phoenix.its.rpi.edu (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id JAA20041; Sun, 4 Jan 1998 09:31:59 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from dec@phoenix.its.rpi.edu) Date: Sun, 4 Jan 1998 09:31:59 -0500 (EST) From: "David E. Cross" To: Doug White cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: release images question? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 3 Jan 1998, Doug White wrote: > On Sat, 3 Jan 1998, David E. Cross wrote: > > > what is the make(1) command to build the release images (boot.flp, > > fixit.flp, bin.aa, bin.ab, ..., etc)? > > This process involves checking out and rebuilding the entire release > structure. You must have the CVS tree available to check out the release > from and enough disk space to build the entire system and archive up the > release packages. > > See http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/release/Makefile to start. > You will also need to set up cvsup. > > Any reason you need to do this? I have setup a FreeBSD mirror, and a number of people have expressed alot of interest in gettting 2.2.5-STABLE rather than 2.2.5-RELEASE. -- David Cross ACS Consultant