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diff --git a/share/man/man8/release.8 b/share/man/man8/release.8 index 6d55dc28f33..454e0deae98 100644 --- a/share/man/man8/release.8 +++ b/share/man/man8/release.8 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: release.8,v 1.84 2017/01/21 08:50:58 tb Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: release.8,v 1.85 2017/01/22 03:40:43 rpe Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2000 Marco S. Hyman .\" Copyright (c) 2016 Theo Buehler <tb@openbsd.org> @@ -10,14 +10,14 @@ .\" LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS .\" FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: January 21 2017 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: January 22 2017 $ .Dt RELEASE 8 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm release .Nd building an OpenBSD release .Sh DESCRIPTION -There are several steps necessary to build a system release: +There are several steps necessary to build a release: .Pp .Bl -enum -compact -offset indent .It @@ -25,13 +25,13 @@ Update sources. .It Build and install a new kernel. .It -Build a new system. +Build a new base system. .It -Make and validate the system release. +Make and validate the base system release. .It -Build and install xenocara. +Build and install Xenocara. .It -Make and validate the xenocara release. +Make and validate the Xenocara release. .It Make the third party packages. .It @@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ The current kernel is copied to and the new kernel to .Pa /bsd . Reboot. -.Ss 3. Build a new system +.Ss 3. Build a new base system The build process will place the object files in a tree under .Pa /usr/obj . This directory should be empty and owned by build:wobj with mode 770. @@ -144,10 +144,10 @@ using and .Xr MAKEDEV 8 . .Pp -At this point, the system is up to date and running the code that will be -made into a release. -.Ss 4. Make and validate the system release -The system release consists of at least one generic kernel, +At this point, the base system is up to date and running the code +that will be made into a release. +.Ss 4. Make and validate the base system release +The base system release consists of at least one generic kernel, some installation media, the release tarballs, installation instructions, and checksum files. .Pp @@ -192,18 +192,18 @@ Make the release and check the contents of the release tarballs: # cd /usr/src/distrib/sets && sh checkflist # unset RELEASEDIR DESTDIR .Ed -.Ss 5. Build and install xenocara +.Ss 5. Build and install Xenocara Xenocara is based on the X.Org modular build system. Its sources are supposed to be in .Pa /usr/xenocara . The .Pa /usr/src -tree is also needed while building xenocara. +tree is also needed while building Xenocara. The object directory .Pa /usr/xobj -should be empty and owned by build:wobj with permissions 770. +should be empty and owned by build:wobj with mode 770. .Pp -The following steps will build and install xenocara. +The following steps will build and install Xenocara. .Bd -literal -offset indent # cd /usr/xenocara # make bootstrap @@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ The following steps will build and install xenocara. .Pp The X Window System is created and installed in .Pa /usr/X11R6 . -.Ss 6. Make and validate the xenocara release +.Ss 6. Make and validate the Xenocara release Xenocara uses .Va DESTDIR and @@ -221,12 +221,12 @@ and as described above. Use a different .Va DESTDIR -for the xenocara release than for the base release, +for the Xenocara release than for the base release, as the contents of .Va DESTDIR will be removed. .Pp -The steps to build and validate the xenocara release are: +The steps to build and validate the Xenocara release are: .Bd -literal -offset indent # export DESTDIR=your-destdir; export RELEASEDIR=your-releasedir # make release @@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ The steps to build and validate the xenocara release are: .Pp At this point, .Ox -system and X Window System tarballs are in +base system and X Window System tarballs are in .Va RELEASEDIR . .Ss 7. Make the third party packages The ports subsystem of contributed applications is capable of producing |