Make distribution without downloading a second time?

[Doug White]

On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Justin Smith wrote:

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> I intend to upgrade my system to 5.2.1 (is this still RELENG-5_2?) and
> would like to also make my own distribution CD's.
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> If I understand the documentation correctly, running make distribution
> will cause a complete (and second) download of the source. But I will
> have already updated the source and would just as soon use the current
> source that's on my system instead of having make distribution
> download it a second time. Is this possible?

you want to use 'make release' instead, probably. There's hooks in there
to use an existing checkout. See src/release/Makefile for a description.

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