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34.Dd August 19, 2007
35.Dt RELEASE 7
36.Os
37.Sh NAME
38.Nm release
39.Nd "release building infrastructure"
40.Sh DESCRIPTION
41.Dx
42provides a complete build environment suitable for users to make
43full releases of the
44.Dx
45operating system.
46All of the tools necessary to build releases are available from the
47CVS repository in
48.Pa src/nrelease .
49A complete release (that is, a live CD) can actually be built with
50only a single command.
51This command is aptly named
52.Dq Li "make release" .
53.Pp
54This document does not cover source code management, quality
55assurance, or other aspects of the release engineering process.
56.Sh TARGETS
57The release Makefile
58.Pq Pa src/nrelease/Makefile
59defines a number of targets which are roughly modeled after the
60targets used for building the system.
61.Bl -tag -width ".Cm realquickrel"
62.It Cm release
63Builds a vanilla live CD.
64.It Cm quickrel
65Same as
66.Cm release
67but uses the
68.Cm quickworld
69target (alias
70.Cm quick ) .
71.It Cm realquickrel
72Same as
73.Cm release
74but uses the
75.Cm realquickworld
76target (alias
77.Cm realquick ) .
78.It Cm clean
79Removes the ISO root directory and object files.
80.It Cm realclean
81Same as
82.Cm clean
83but also removes external packages.
84.El
85.Pp
86The
87.Cm quickrel
88and
89.Cm realquickrel
90targets will only work if a full
91.Dq Li "make release"
92has been done before.
93For a description of the corresponding build targets, see
94.Xr build 7 .
95.Pp
96If the
97.Cm installer
98target is specified along with a
99.Cm release ,
100.Cm quickrel ,
101or
102.Cm realquickrel
103target, the
104.Bx
105Installer will be added to the resulting ISO image.
106.Pp
107During the process of rolling a release a check is performed to find
108out if a number of external packages to be put on the CD exist on
109your system.
110If they cannot be found, the release process will stop and give
111proper commands for downloading and setting up these packages.
112.Sh ENVIRONMENT
113.Bl -tag -width ".Va WITHOUT_SRCS"
114.It Va WITHOUT_SRCS
115If set, this variable will prevent kernel source code from being copied
116to
117.Pa /usr/src-sys.tar.bz2
118on the ISO image.
119.El
120.Sh FILES
121.Bl -tag -compact
122.It Pa /etc/make.conf
123.It Pa src/Makefile
124.It Pa src/Makefile.inc1
125.It Pa src/nrelease/Makefile
126.El
127.Sh EXAMPLES
128The following sequence of commands is used to build a standard
129.Dx 1.10
130installation CD image (assuming that a local CVS repository is
131available):
132.Bd -literal -offset indent
133cd /usr
134cvs co -rDragonFly_RELEASE_1_10 src
135cd src/nrelease
136make installer release
137.Ed
138.Pp
139After running these commands, the image will be available in the
140.Pa /usr/release
141directory.
142.Sh SEE ALSO
143.Xr cvs 1 ,
144.Xr make 1 ,
145.Xr make.conf 5 ,
146.Xr build 7
147.Sh HISTORY
148.Pa src/nrelease
149was added in
150.Dx 1.0
151to implement the idea of a
152.Dq "live CD" .
153.Sh AUTHORS
154.An -nosplit
155The
156.Nm
157infrastructure was written by
158.An Matthew Dillon .
159This manual page was written by
160.An Sascha Wildner .
161.Sh BUGS
162There are more targets and variables in
163.Pa src/nrelease/Makefile
164that should be documented.
165