svn commit: r43944 - user/gjb/releng-rewrite/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/freebsd-releng
Glen Barber
gjb at FreeBSD.org
Fri Feb 14 22:31:20 UTC 2014
Author: gjb
Date: Fri Feb 14 22:31:20 2014
New Revision: 43944
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/43944
Log:
Add notes about the -ALPHA build and what file(s) to update.
Add placeholder section for "building the images."
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Modified:
user/gjb/releng-rewrite/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/freebsd-releng/article.xml
Modified: user/gjb/releng-rewrite/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/freebsd-releng/article.xml
==============================================================================
--- user/gjb/releng-rewrite/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/freebsd-releng/article.xml Fri Feb 14 22:31:18 2014 (r43943)
+++ user/gjb/releng-rewrite/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/freebsd-releng/article.xml Fri Feb 14 22:31:20 2014 (r43944)
@@ -113,6 +113,15 @@
<para>Wrapping up the release cycle.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><xref linkend="releng-building"/></term>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Information related to the specific procedures to
+ build installation medium.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</sect1>
@@ -305,6 +314,17 @@
<para>&os; <literal>-ALPHA</literal> snapshots should be built
approximately once a week.</para>
+
+ <para>For the first <literal>-ALPHA</literal> build, the
+ <literal>BRANCH</literal> value in
+ <filename>sys/conf/newvers.sh</filename> needs to be changed
+ from <literal>CURRENT</literal> to <literal>ALPHA1</literal>.
+ For subsequent <literal>-ALPHA</literal> builds, increment
+ each <literal>ALPHA<replaceable>N</replaceable></literal>
+ value by one.</para>
+
+ <para>See <xref linkend="releng-building"/> for information on
+ building the <literal>-ALPHA</literal> images.</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 xml:id="releng-head-freeze-kbi">
@@ -376,4 +396,11 @@
<para>This section describes general post-release tasks.</para>
</sect1>
+
+ <sect1 xml:id="releng-building">
+ <title>Building the Installer Images</title>
+
+ <para>This section describes how to build the installation images
+ as part of the &os; release cycle.</para>
+ </sect1>
</article>
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