On 7/28/06, Miod Vallat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> could some one please explain what is means that snapshots are
> *always* actually releases?
In /usr/src/etc/Makefile, there used to be two targets to create
tarballs to share a system with someone else:
- make snapshot, which would create rough tarballs of various filesystem
locations (bin.tar.gz, sbin.tar.gz, usr.bin.tar.gz, etc)
- make release, which would create the installation media and the
thematic tarballs everyone is used to use (base.tgz, comp.tgz, etc).
What is published as OpenBSD snapshots is always the result of ``make
release'', which is no different than the way actual releases are built.
Hence the removal of the ``make snapshot'' part, and the comments that
our snapshots are (obtained with make) release.
Thanks a millon miod for your detailed explanation of the context :-)
Kind Regards
Siju
