From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 3 5:22:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B639C37B663 for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 05:21:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA81518; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 14:21:24 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from olli) Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 14:21:24 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <200008031221.OAA81518@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: making a RELEASE X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-stable In-Reply-To: <8mb956$1pja$1@atlantis.rz.tu-clausthal.de> Organization: Administration TU Clausthal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: tin/1.4.1-19991201 ("Polish") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/3.4-19991219-STABLE (i386)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In list.freebsd-stable Plamen Petkov wrote: > 3. hacking /usr/src/release/Makefile, where, instead of 'cvs'-ing srcs, I > just 'cp' them in $CHROOTDIR/src Using tar (or star from the ports) is probably better than cp. > Well, this is a bit away from the 'standard' release/snap making > procedure, but as i said in my prev messages - I do this for me only, to > have MY snapshot on a bootable CD, just in case. The price is reasonable - > a night of my life :-) And what is the advantage over simply making a backup of your disk? Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Addresses will change soon!! If in doubt: www.fromme.com "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Terry Pratchett) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message