How to customize a release?

[John Baldwin]

On Thursday 02 September 2004 04:07 pm, ctodd at chrismiller.com wrote:
> John,
> 	Thanks for the quick reply.
>
> > There is a 'KERNELS' variable that is helpful.
>
> I see this in the Makefile, but if I were to use KERNELS=MYKERNEL will
> that prevent the other standard kernels from being built?
>
> > Also, look at LOCAL_PATCHES and LOCAL_SCRIPTS as far as how to patch a
> > release build.  Note that you can include patches to
> > src/release/Makefile in LOCAL_PATCHES if need be. :)
>
> LOCAL_PATCHES is what I'm using now (waiting for build to finish to see
> how it worked). I was hoping for a way to populate the src tree without
> doing a full release so I could create the patches, then run make release
> only once (it took 5 hours on my devel system last time).  At this point
> I've already done that, but for the next time I'd like to work more
> efficiently.
>
> BTW, I see I overlooked the RELEASENOUPDATE variable in the man page, so
> that answers my question about preventing CVS updates on "make rerelease".
> Unfortunately make rerelease didn't rebuild anything in /R/stage (I got
> "ftp.1 is up to date"). Am I supposed to delete the stage directories to
> force a rebuild, or do I need to do a full release to incorporate any
> minor changes?

I just delete the files in ${CHROOTDIR}/usr/obj/usr/src/release to get it to 
rebuild the targets I want.

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