On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 8:11 PM, Richard Daemon
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 6:26 PM, Chris Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Trying to do a "make release" apparently without success:
> > =====================================
> > cp /usr/dest/snapshot/*BOOT* /usr/rel
> > cp: /usr/dest/snapshot/*BOOT*: No such file or directory
> > *** Error code 1 (ignored)
> > cp /usr/dest/snapshot/cd*.iso /usr/rel
> > cp /usr/dest/snapshot/Packages /usr/rel
> > cp: /usr/dest/snapshot/Packages: No such file or directory
> > *** Error code 1 (ignored)
> > cp /usr/dest/snapshot/INSTALL.* /usr/rel
> > cp /usr/dest/snapshot/*.fs /usr/dest/snapshot/*.fs.gz /usr/rel
> > cp: /usr/dest/snapshot/*.fs.gz: No such file or directory
> > *** Error code 1 (ignored)
> > cd /usr/rel; md5 *bsd!(*.gz) *boot* cdbr *BOOT* INSTALL.* Packages *.fs
> > *.iso *.gz *.tgz > MD5
> > md5: cannot open *BOOT*: No such file or directory
> > md5: cannot open Packages: No such file or directory
> > md5: cannot open *.gz: No such file or directory
> > cd /usr/rel && sort -o MD5 MD5
> > =====================================
> >
> > System started as a clean install from the 2/17/08 snapshot and upgraded
> > to -current before doing "make release". I followed the instructions
> > at: http://openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#Release
> >
> > What did I miss?
> >
> > Thank you,
> > --
> > Chris
> >
> >
>
> Probably because the steps -> test -d ${DESTDIR} && mv ${DESTDIR}
> ${DESTDIR}.old && rm -rf ${DESTDIR}.old &
>
> Skip that part or better yet, don't rm -rf until you're fully finished
> everything... Especially if you want to make a full release(8) with X
> sets too then you'll have OpenBSD in ${DESTDIR}.old and Xenocara in
> ${DESTDIR}, if memory serves me correctly. It's kinda misleading and
> the same goes with release(8).
>
> Just my $0.02, hope this helps.
>
whoops, i meant lower in the FAQ:
# test -d ${DESTDIR} && mv ${DESTDIR} ${DESTDIR}- && \
rm -rf ${DESTDIR}- &
