How to customize a release?

[Ruslan Ermilov]

On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 01:04:19AM -0700, ctodd at chrismiller.com wrote:
> 
> > Let me know if you believe this is unclear and should be improved (from the
> > release(7) manpage):
> >
> > :      release.3        Makes and installs the GENERIC kernel as well as any
> >                                                ^^^^^^^        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > :                       other kernels listed in KERNELS.
> >                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^        ^^^^^^^^^^
> > :
> > :      KERNELS          Specifies a list of additional kernel configura-
> >                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > :                       tions to compile and install into the ``base'' dis-
> > :                       tribution.  Each kernel is installed into
> > :                       /boot/<config> so that it can be booted from the
> > :                       loader via ``boot <config>''.
> 
> This must exist in the 5.x man pages, I'm working with 4.x systems :
> 
>      release.3   Builds and installs ``crypto'', ``krb4'' and ``krb5''
>                  distri-butions.
>      release.4   Makes and installs the GENERIC kernel.
> 
> There is no reference to the KERNELS variable in the 4.x version of the
> man page although it does exist in the Makefile. So this explains why you
> think I hadn't RTFM ;-)
> 
> Thanks for your help, between you and John I think I've got this mostly
> figured out.
> 
I've just updated the release(7) manapge in RELENG_4, merging all
documentation changes from HEAD that were relevant.  You might
want to update and re-read it.


Cheers,
-- 
Ruslan Ermilov
ru at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer
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