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The release target uses the results of make buildworld to seed a chroot for release building.

<strong>Release process was completely rewritten for 9+; these no longer apply!</strong>

<code brush="bash">
cd /usr/src
make buildworld
</code>

!! Build options

BUILDNAME:
 The name of the release (usually '<release>-<arch>', i.e. '8.2-RELEASE-amd64'; if undefined, defaults to '<base>-<date>-SNAP', i.e. '8.2-20110611-SNAP')
CHROOTDIR:
 Directory in which the chroot will be seeded and the release will be built (will be deleted before use)
WORLD_FLAGS:
 Flags to pass to make buildworld (-j8)
KERNEL_FLAGS:
 Flags to pass to make buildkernel (-j8)
KERNELS_BASE:
 List of kernel configs to build
KERNELS:
 I'm not sure.
NODOC:
 Do not build documentation
NOPORTS:
 Do not build ports for the release process or as packages for the release ISOs
RELEASENOUPDATE:
 Do not update the src tree during make rerelease
CD_PACKAGE_TREE:
 A tree of packages to include in the install CD images maybe?

!!Location of sources:

!Building from CVS:
CVSROOT:
 Location of the CVS tree from which to check out the current sources
RELEASETAG:
 CVS tag to check out
CVSARGS:
 Arguments to pass to the CVS command
CVSCMDARGS:
 Arguments to pass to the CVS subcommand invocation
CVSPREFIX:
 Prefix the CVS command with another command

!Building from SVN:
SVNROOT:
 Location of the SVN tree from which to check out the current sources
SVNBRANCH:
 SVN branch to check out
SVNARGS:
 Arguments to pass to the SVN command
SVNCMDARGS:
 Arguments to pass to the SVN subcommand invocation
SVNPREFIX:
 Prefix the SVN command with another command

!Building from local src tree:
EXTSRCDIR:
 To test a release with a source tree containing patches and other work. This tree will get copied instead of getting the src/ tree from a CVS checkout. For 'rerelease', this will NOT be copied; cvs update will be used instead
EXTPORTSDIR:
 To use a checked-out ports collection directory instead of checking out from a local CVS repository
EXTDOCDIR:
 To use a checked-out doc/ directory instead of checking out from a local CVS repository

!! Patching fresh sources
LOCAL_PATCHES:
 Patch files to apply to the freshly checked out source tree before building
PATCH_FLAGS:
 Flags to pass to the patch(1) command