make release and error while making iso
Axel S. Gruner
axel.gruner at suedfactoring.de
Mon Apr 28 07:56:52 PDT 2003
Hi.
On Mon, 28 Apr 2003 07:46:59 -0700
bmah at FreeBSD.org (Bruce A. Mah) wrote:
> > Now it works for me. Not the way it is described in man release, but i works:
> >
> > #/data/lbsd_de/lbsd_de/src/release/: ln -s /data/RELEASE/R /R
> > #/data/lbsd_de/lbsd_de/src/release/: make iso.1 -DMAKE_ISOS
>
> OK. Most of "make release" runs inside a chroot sandbox (for you, this
> is /data/RELEASE). The two lines you gave above are kind of a hack to
> let you run "make iso.1" from outside the sandbox.
Ah, now i understand, also with...
> What I didn't state before (but should have) was that if you use
> -DMAKE_ISOS as a part of every release that you build, you don't need to
> go back and figure out how to make them later. :-)
> release(7) seems to be missing the fact that the "Targets called by
> 'make release'" are only intended to be run from inside the sandbox, and
> not by the person building the release.
...this explanation, it makes sense to me.
So, i will just -DMAKE_ISOS use as a part of the make release process, and everything will be fine (and remember the part of building isos as an extra part in the back of my brain).
Thanks a lot.
Axel
> Bruce.
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