From owner-freebsd-current Wed Apr 24 11: 9: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (whale.sunbay.crimea.ua [212.110.138.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F61137B429; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 11:08:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from ru@localhost) by whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (8.11.6/8.11.2) id g3OI7ln13257; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 21:07:47 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from ru) Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 21:07:47 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: Makoto Matsushita Cc: current@FreeBSD.org, re@FreeBSD.org, matusita@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Cross-platform releases Message-ID: <20020424180747.GA12943@sunbay.com> References: <20020424151201.GA94711@sunbay.com> <20020425014404T.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="gBBFr7Ir9EOA20Yy" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020425014404T.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --gBBFr7Ir9EOA20Yy Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 01:44:04AM +0900, Makoto Matsushita wrote: >=20 > ru> This is just a heads up for anyone interested that I have just > ru> started working on a cross-platform "make release" issue so that > ru> "make release TARGET_ARCH=3Dalpha" on an i386 box would produce a > ru> working Alpha release. >=20 > Wonderful! If there are any tasks I can help for you, feel free to > email me. My buildboxes are awaiting more jobs to do, but myself is > awaiting more spare times to do :-( >=20 A fast -CURRENT box with root access for "make release" would be highly appreciated. My 500MHz Celeron is too slow for this. > ru> The next task will be to support cross-branch "make releases" > ru> so that a 4.x box could be used to produce a 5.0 snapshot. >=20 > It seems that there are 2 problems; some syscall issue, and md/vn > device issue. However, IIRC, the latter problem was already resolved > by nyan-san. >=20 There are no syscall issues in my version because I do not do a second "installworld". > ru> Supporting non-root "make release"s might be a good idea too. >=20 > This requires that non-root uses vn/md device... >=20 I realize that, there are some prerequisites for this too, like setting vfs.usermount=3D1. More about this later. I estimate that 30% is already done. :-) Time to sleep now. Cheers, --=20 Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age --gBBFr7Ir9EOA20Yy Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8xvRzUkv4P6juNwoRAih3AJ95oIbpEt+EKI5DgrDypT71uS3rxQCgiiRG 4V4i1lonqZAU1CXUfH/P2hQ= =V3WD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --gBBFr7Ir9EOA20Yy-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message