Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 10:06:17 +0100 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@vector.jhs.local> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Hackers' list) Subject: Re: Building a "custom" release of 2.1.0 Message-ID: <199601170906.KAA01708@vector.jhs.local> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 16 Jan 1996 00:19:41 PST." <7555.821780381@time.cdrom.com>
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Hi, Reference: > From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> > > > What was the rationale for FreeBSD going over to requiring CVS just to > > produce a release ? FreeBSD didn't use to do it that way. > > Uh, it's been this way since 2.0?! > > > Involving CVS takes longer, uses more disc, so why ? > > Read and understand /usr/src/etc/Makefile - it explains this far more > cogently than I ever could! OK, but I &/or any other interested reader will then merely learn how you currently do it, not _why_ you did it that way. With CVS now public, some people are attempting to practice `roll their own', so if CVS is at all avoidable (like it was in FreeBSD-1.*), it would help more people with less disc space practice. Having learnt the ropes, those people could assist FreeBSD at release time. The more people available on call the better, from the agonised wails of each past over-burdened stressed out Release Engineer :-) Julian -- Julian H. Stacey jhs@freebsd.org http://www.freebsd.org/~jhs/
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