On 07-Oct-01 Terry Lambert wrote: > As to the work itself, I have been avoiding it, since we have > a new person at ClickArray whose "trial by fire" is building > an updated "developer workstation release CDROM" based on the > FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE plus our heavily modified kernel code, > and our distribution package for our current release product > (i.e. a CDROM that can be used to install engineering desktop > machines, and can also be used as a "golden master" for the > release engineering process). > > As soon as he has successfully been mentored through this > process (which involves many local patches, some of which I > posted to you, and which must be manually integrated, since > the FreeBSD "add patches during ``make release''" doesn't > work if you are patching the top level release Makefile), I > will be able to turn my attention to it without stepping on > his toes or his learning process.
Actually, while that is painful, it's not that hard to work around. You need your big honkin' patch file that you list in LOCAL_PATCHES and then you need to patch src/release/Makefile manually before you kick off the release. The only extra step is patching src/release/Makefile manually, and there isn't a good way to workaround that, since you always have to bootstrap from something. I've used this approach many times myself in testing release Makefile changes. It's not that hard. :-P -- John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
