'make release' questions...

[Bruce A. Mah]

If memory serves me right, Peter Losher wrote:
> I have been mucking about w/ 'make release' for some time now (stripping
> out OpenSSH, sendmail, Heimdal, bits oF BIND, etc.) and while I now have
> a working .iso image, that will install and update, I have some
> questions that 'man release' just won't answer. :)
> 
> First, is there any way to instruct 'make release' to just build certain
> packages (and their dependencies) for inclusion in the release instead
> of a blanket NOPORTS?  There's no need for us spend two/three days
> compiling all the various ports when we will only use a small handful of
> them on most of our boxes.  (and would speed up the amount of time it
> takes to roll out a new release) ;)

NOPORTS controls whether or not the ports tree gets checked and built
for the release.  It doesn't do a full package build.

If release-building speed is really important for you, you might want to
turn on NODOC.  This avoids building a doc toolchain (i.e. the
textproc/docproj port), the doc/ tree, and the release documentation.

I haven't read through src/release/Makefile for awhile, so I'm not sure
if there's an easy way to build (and include) the selected packages
build you want.  I know we don't do this for official release
builds...all the packages get built on the ports-building cluster and
get added afterwards.  You might want to read through
src/release/Makefile...it might take a few passes but it'll probably be
worth your time just so you can understand all the various steps going
on.  Just a thought.

> Second, is there a way to build/tell sysinstall that if NO_OPENSSH is
> set, that it doesn't ask you whether you want to enable SSH logins?

<speculation>I don't think so.</speculation>

Bruce.

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