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authorJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2008-08-23 07:05:41 +0000
committerJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2008-08-23 07:05:41 +0000
commit5111d15d4680d7487fd861a36cb963404458ce83 (patch)
treee16701ea5439127cba9ed357c9c304422f3c2bf3
parentcd2160bb9c9ebf139a36363ec51a1fa90c263e3d (diff)
it's no longer necessary to build crunch by hand, so adjust the
release instructions accordingly;
-rw-r--r--share/man/man8/release.830
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man8/release.8 b/share/man/man8/release.8
index 9c31ba664f0..c7a377b02ff 100644
--- a/share/man/man8/release.8
+++ b/share/man/man8/release.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: release.8,v 1.55 2008/06/22 20:54:51 ajacoutot Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: release.8,v 1.56 2008/08/23 07:05:40 jmc Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2000 Marco S. Hyman
.\"
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
.\" LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS
.\" FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: June 22 2008 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: August 23 2008 $
.Dt RELEASE 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -255,34 +255,24 @@ device, svnd0,
is also used and must not be configured.
.El
.Pp
-The floppy and
-.Tn CD-ROM
-.Pa RAMDISK
-images require a special tool which is created first.
The release process is:
.Pp
+Ensure
+.Va ${DESTDIR}
+exists as an empty directory and
+.Va ${RELEASEDIR}
+exists.
+.Va ${RELEASEDIR}
+need not be empty.
You must be root to create a release:
-.Pp
-.Dl $ su
-.Pp
-Create the special tools needed to build the release:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
-# cd /usr/src/distrib/crunch && make obj && make depend \e
- && make all && make install
+$ su
# export DESTDIR=your-destdir; export RELEASEDIR=your-releasedir
# test -d ${DESTDIR} && mv ${DESTDIR} ${DESTDIR}- && \e
rm -rf ${DESTDIR}- &
# mkdir -p ${DESTDIR} ${RELEASEDIR}
.Ed
.Pp
-The last two steps ensure
-.Va ${DESTDIR}
-exists as an empty directory and
-.Va ${RELEASEDIR}
-exists.
-.Va ${RELEASEDIR}
-need not be empty.
-.Pp
Check that the contents of
.Va ${DESTDIR}
pretty much match the contents of the release