From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 17 18:59:23 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA00547 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 18:59:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from vector.jhs.local (slip139-92-42-176.emea.ibm.net [139.92.42.176]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA00522 Wed, 17 Jan 1996 18:58:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vector.jhs.local (8.7.3/8.6.9) with SMTP id KAA01708; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 10:06:18 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <199601170906.KAA01708@vector.jhs.local> X-Authentication-Warning: vector.jhs.local: Host localhost [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Ollivier Robert , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Hackers' list) Subject: Re: Building a "custom" release of 2.1.0 Reply-To: "Julian H. Stacey" Organization: Vector Systems Ltd. (Internet Unix & C Consultants) Address: Holz Strasse 27d, 80469 Munich, Germany Phone: +49.89.268616 Fax: +49.89.2608126 (pending reconfig) Web: http://www.freebsd.org/~jhs/ Mailer: EXMH version 1.6.5 95 12 11 In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 16 Jan 1996 00:19:41 PST." <7555.821780381@time.cdrom.com> Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 10:06:17 +0100 From: "Julian H. Stacey" Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Hi, Reference: > From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" > > > 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/