From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 5 19:31:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA19502 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 5 Jan 1998 19:31:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA19493 for ; Mon, 5 Jan 1998 19:31:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA01556; Mon, 5 Jan 1998 19:31:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 19:31:29 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "David E. Cross" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: release images question? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 4 Jan 1998, David E. Cross wrote: > On Sat, 3 Jan 1998, Doug White wrote: > > > On Sat, 3 Jan 1998, David E. Cross wrote: > > > > > what is the make(1) command to build the release images (boot.flp, > > > fixit.flp, bin.aa, bin.ab, ..., etc)? > > > > This process involves checking out and rebuilding the entire release > > structure. You must have the CVS tree available to check out the release > > from and enough disk space to build the entire system and archive up the > > release packages. > > > > See http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/release/Makefile to start. > > You will also need to set up cvsup. > > > > Any reason you need to do this? > > I have setup a FreeBSD mirror, and a number of people have expressed alot > of interest in gettting 2.2.5-STABLE rather than 2.2.5-RELEASE. Try pointing them at current.freebsd.org; they do the `daily build' on -CURRENT and 2.2-STABLE. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major