svn commit: r219788 - head/release

[Nathan Whitehorn]

On 03/19/11 18:10, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 4:06 PM, Nathan Whitehorn
> <nwhitehorn at freebsd.org>  wrote:
>> Author: nwhitehorn
>> Date: Sat Mar 19 23:06:17 2011
>> New Revision: 219788
>> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/219788
>>
>> Log:
>>   Add support for checking out ports and doc trees from a CVS repository,
>>   in addition to CVSUP, and add support for alternate SVN roots for src.
>>
>>   Requested by: jhb
>
> Although this seems good and all, wouldn't it make sense to split off
> the pulling infrastructure into separate scripts so that someone could
> have hooks to do:
>
> - pre-pull (create paths, whatever)
> - pull
> - post-pull (patch?)
>
> That way someone could choose any arbitrary SCM (git, hg, etc),
> specify necessary configuration files, and apply local patches as
> necessary.
> Thanks,
> -Garrett

That's pretty much the point of having generate-release.sh be a 
different thing from 'make release'. You'll note that the script is very 
short (36 lines of code, a good chunk of which are an inline supfile), 
and could easily be adapted to suit any SCM. All it does is:

1. Check out source code
2. Build and install world into a chroot
3. Optionally check out doc/ports and install docproj ports
4. Run make release in the chroot

The regular make release stuff only cares that src(/doc/ports) have 
shown up somehow on the host system and is well suited to the local 
patches or nonstandard SCM case.
-Nathan