The release target uses the results of make buildworld to seed a chroot for release building.
Release process was copmletely rewritten for 9+; these no longer apply!
cd /usr/src make buildworld
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