I was having a hell of a time downloading ISO images of 4.8-RC1 or 5.0 to
install on an old machine I just got--they'd freeze, no matter what mirror
I used--so I thought I'd try making my own release and ISO images. I
could compile everything here, burn a CD, and I'd be all set.
I read release (7), and looked the examples, but I'm still not sure what
to do. I used the sample cvs-supfile to download all the CVS files, but
then I got stuck. The release man page says this was used to build
4.5-RELEASE:
cd /usr
cvs co -rRELENG_4_5_0_RELEASE src
cd src
make buildworld
cd release
make release CHROOTDIR=/local3/release BUILDNAME=4.5-RELEASE \
CVSROOT=/host/cvs/usr/home/ncvs RELEASETAG=RELENG_4_5_0_RELEASE
What does that cvs in the second line do? Where they used
RELENG_4_5_0_RELEASE, what would I use if I wanted to build from my system
and I've cvsupped so I'm up to date? uname -a says 4.8-PRERELEASE now, of
course, and I just want to take what I've got and make a CD of it. I
couldn't get the cvs line to go, and when I tried the make release,
whatever release I tried or guessed at, I'd get:
===> include
creating osreldate.h from newvers.sh
setvar PARAMFILE /usr/src/include/../sys/sys/param.h; .
/usr/src/include/../sys/conf/newvers.sh; echo "$COPYRIGHT" > osreldate.h;
echo "#ifdef _KERNEL" >> osreldate.h; echo '#error "osreldate.h must not
be used in the kernel, use sys/param.h"' >> osreldate.h; echo "#else" >>
osreldate.h; echo \#'undef __FreeBSD_version' >> osreldate.h; echo
\#'define __FreeBSD_version' $RELDATE >> osreldate.h; echo "#endif" >>
osreldate.h
touch: not found
*** Error code 127
[more errors and make dies]
I read through the release engineering stuff at
http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng/
but that didn't clear it up.
Bill
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