Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 12:00:13 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com> To: Makoto MATSUSHITA <matusita@jp.freebsd.org> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: making a RELEASE [should make buildworld made before?] Message-ID: <200008021900.MAA75232@pike.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: <20000802221635Y.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> from Makoto MATSUSHITA at "Aug 2, 2000 10:16:35 pm"
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Makoto MATSUSHITA wrote: > > obrien> However, today's buildworld is more resilent having better > obrien> build-tools, etc.. targets than when release/Makefile was > obrien> first written. Maybe this need could be removed. But this > obrien> hasn't happened yet. > > If I understand the facts of src/release/Makefile correctly, > > - First 'make installworld' under /usr/src is for "creating a chroot > environment for further release engineering." Maybe it can be > supercedesed by copying existing environment or just extracting > 'bin' distribution. But there is no tool for this. Yes, and just doing a make installworld is the easiest way to do this. > - Second 'make buildworld' inside a chroot environment is the actual > build procedure. Obviously, it cannot remove :-) > > - Second 'make installworld' inside a chroot environment is for > "creating an environment for further _actual_ release procedures." > Even though we have much much better procedures for build-tools, > _actual_ release procedures (release.[1-9], doc.?, cdrom.?, and > ftp.? target in src/release/Makefile) does not consider about > that. If these procedures requires newer version of toolchain, it > should be a release-breaker. Well, it is similar to the reason we have build-tools, etc. in the world. We want to make sure that we have tools that match the release Makefile we are using. Also, it is a good test, since we need to make sure that the sources can do an actual installworld before we ship them out to people. :) -- John Baldwin <jhb@bsdi.com> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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