svn commit: r219181 - head/release

[Nathan Whitehorn]

On 03/03/11 11:09, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Wednesday, March 02, 2011 11:06:57 am Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
>> Author: nwhitehorn
>> Date: Wed Mar  2 16:06:57 2011
>> New Revision: 219181
>> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/219181
>>
>> Log:
>>    Add additional release makefile for bsdinstall-based media, along with
>>    support files. This does not change the default behavior of anything.
>>
>>    To make bsdinstall-based media, pre-build world and GENERIC, then run
>>    the release target in Makefile.bsdinstall.
> Are you planning on keeping the current 'make release' behavior of building a
> full chroot and doing a clean build in the chroot to build a release?  That
> is, is 'Makefile.bsdinstall' just a temporary shortcut for building test
> releases or is that the final replacement for 'release/Makefile'?

It was intended (modulo memstick building, docs, and some miscellaneous 
cleanup) to be the final replacement for release/Makefile. In my 
experience, the automatic fetching, clean build, and chroot was a major 
impediment to easily making installation media for users to test 
patches. I figured that if people (e.g. re@) really want a totally clean 
tree, checking one out by hand and building from there didn't seem like 
an enormous obstacle.

If you think it's a really important feature, I'm happy to add it back, 
however.
-Nathan