Observations on make release process?

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Saturday 15 November 2003 08:07, Clifton Royston wrote:
>   I have some observations fairly fresh in my mind from trying to build
> a version of FreeBSD 4.8.12 with the IBM Propolice anti-stack-smash
> patch.  This was intended as a quick prelude to trying to build our own
> internal release with a reduced set of base binaries, different
> packages available on CD for install, etc.  However, I certainly ran
> into more pitfalls than I expected along the way, and a lot less detail
> and more handwaving than I expected in the docs I could find.

I have a procedure for make release ->
http://www.gsoft.com.au/~doconnor/FreeBSD-release-2.html

but the way I do it is not 'normal' - I don't use the CVS repo because I can't 
commit into that tree (and local CVS hacks make my head hurt) so I check out 
and modify the source in /usr/src, build it and test then after I'm happy 
with it I make release with a patch to copy the source instead of checking it 
out.

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