From owner-cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 22 19:12:19 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0419116A422; Mon, 22 Aug 2005 19:12:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mv.twc.weather.com (mv.twc.weather.com [65.212.71.225]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F24B43D48; Mon, 22 Aug 2005 19:12:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from [10.50.40.201] (Not Verified[10.50.40.201]) by mv.twc.weather.com with NetIQ MailMarshal (v6, 0, 3, 8) id ; Mon, 22 Aug 2005 15:27:22 -0400 From: John Baldwin To: Colin Percival Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 13:57:03 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <200508190356.j7J3uj5D095435@repoman.freebsd.org> <200508201437.36296.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <43079814.8030107@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <43079814.8030107@freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200508221357.05742.jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, Doug Barton , cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf newvers.sh X-BeenThere: cvs-src@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the src tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 19:12:19 -0000 On Saturday 20 August 2005 04:52 pm, Colin Percival wrote: > John Baldwin wrote: > > On Friday 19 August 2005 11:40 am, Colin Percival wrote: > >>When running > >>FreeBSD Update builds, I'll typically have a RELEASE-pX tree checked out > >>and a security patch (which is going to get committed to the tree later); > >>I want to be able to build tree + patch with a label of RELEASE-p{X + 1}. > > > > If you used 'make release' to build your custom release (like a lot of > > other folks do) you would have had all this for free. :) > > I'm not building a release; I'm building and installing a new world and > kernel. For FreeBSD Update, I need the actual files which people will have > installed on their systems, not the ISO images and FTP install tree. You can extract the dists to build the trees as well. I did this recently to update ~1200 boxes over a one-way satellite link. :) This would also let you not require that people install a fixed-set of distributions but let them subscribe to multiple distribution sets if desired since you can recreate any configuration by extracting the appropriate set of dists into a work area. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org