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34.Dd February 11, 2009
35.Dt NRELEASE 7
36.Os
37.Sh NAME
38.Nm nrelease
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
47git 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 help
63Offer some help.
64.It Cm release
65Builds world and kernel, installs them, adds packages and prepares the ISO
66image.
67.It Cm quickrel
68Same as
69.Cm release
70but uses the
71.Cm quickworld
72target (alias
73.Cm quick ) .
74.It Cm realquickrel
75Same as
76.Cm release
77but uses the
78.Cm realquickworld
79target (alias
80.Cm realquick ) .
81.It Cm clean
82Removes the ISO root directory and object files.
83.It Cm realclean
84Same as
85.Cm clean
86but also removes external packages.
87.It Cm fetch
88Downloads binary packages using
89.Xr fetch 1 .
90.El
91.Pp
92The
93.Cm quickrel
94and
95.Cm realquickrel
96targets will only work if a full
97.Cm buildworld
98and
99.Cm buildkernel
100have been done before.
101For a description of the corresponding build targets, see
102.Xr build 7 .
103.Pp
104A number of additional targets may be specified along with
105.Cm release ,
106.Cm quickrel ,
107or
108.Cm realquickrel
109to add additional features:
110.Bl -tag -width ".Cm realquickrel"
111.It Cm gui
112Adds
113.Xr Xorg 1
114along with some additional applications to the ISO (LiveDVD).
115.It Cm img
116In addition to the ISO, an image suitable for use with e.g., a USB thumb
117drive, will be created.
118.El
119.Pp
120During the process of rolling a release a check is performed to find
121out if external packages to be put on the CD exist on your system.
122If they cannot be found, the release process will stop and give
123proper commands for downloading and setting up these packages.
124.Sh ENVIRONMENT
125.Bl -tag -width ".Va PKGSRC_EXTRA_PACKAGES"
126.It Va ISODIR
127Default prefix of
128.Va ISOFILE
129and
130.Va ISOROOT
131(default is
132.Pa /usr/release ) .
133.It Va ISOFILE
134Name of the ISO image to generate (default is
135.Pa /usr/release/dfly.iso ) .
136.It Va ISOROOT
137Location where the image contents are installed to before the ISO is prepared.
138.It Va KERNCONF
139Kernel configuration(s) to use.
140.It Va PKGBIN_MKISOFS
141Location of the
142.Xr mkisofs 8
143utility which is to be used during the build.
144.It Va PKGBIN_PKG_ADD
145Location of the
146.Xr pkg_add 1
147utility which is to be used during the build.
148.It Va PKGBIN_PKG_ADMIN
149Location of the
150.Xr pkg_admin 1
151utility which is to be used during the build.
152.It Va PKGBIN_PKG_DELETE
153Location of the
154.Xr pkg_delete 1
155utility which is to be used during the build.
156.It Va PKGSRC_PACKAGES
157List of packages to be added to the ISO.
158.It Va PKGSRC_EXTRA_PACKAGES
159List of packages, in addition to
160.Va PKGSRC_PACKAGES ,
161to be added to the ISO.
162.It Va PKGSRC_PATH
163Location of
164.Xr pkgsrc 7
165tree to be used for package building.
166.It Va PKGSRC_PKG_PATH
167Specifies the location where binary
168.Xr pkgsrc 7
169packages are kept.
170.It Va WITHOUT_SRCS
171If set, this variable will prevent source code from being copied to
172the ISO image.
173.It Va IMGFILE
174The name of the image file (default is
175.Pa /usr/release/dfly.img ) .
176.It Va IMGMNT
177The mount point for the image (default is
178.Pa /usr/release/mnt ) .
179.It Va IMGUSBDEV
180The disk device to use in the image's
181.Xr fstab 5
182(default is
183.Pa /dev/da8 ) .
184.El
185.Sh FILES
186.Bl -tag -compact
187.It Pa /etc/make.conf
188.It Pa src/Makefile
189.It Pa src/Makefile.inc1
190.It Pa src/nrelease/Makefile
191.El
192.Sh EXAMPLES
193The following sequence of commands is used to build a standard
194.Dx 2.0
195installation CD image (assuming that a local git repository is
196available, see
197.Xr development 7
198for how to get this):
199.Bd -literal -offset indent
200cd /usr/src
201git checkout -b rel2_0 crater/DragonFly_RELEASE_2_0
202cd nrelease
203make release
204.Ed
205.Pp
206After running these commands, the image will be available in the
207.Pa /usr/release
208directory.
209.\".Pp
210.\"The steps required for engineering a release are documented in (CVS)
211.\".Pa doc/notes/release.txt
212.\"(how to branch the CVS tree etc.)
213.\"They were put in an out of the way place so normal developers would not
214.\"accidentally try to run the commands in question.
215.Sh SEE ALSO
216.Xr git 1 ,
217.Xr make 1 ,
218.Xr make.conf 5 ,
219.Xr build 7 ,
220.Xr development 7 ,
221.Xr pkgsrc 7
222.Sh HISTORY
223The
224.Nm
225framework was added in
226.Dx 1.0
227to implement the idea of a
228.Dq "live CD" .
229.Sh AUTHORS
230.An -nosplit
231The
232.Nm
233infrastructure was written by
234.An Matthew Dillon .
235This manual page was written by
236.An Sascha Wildner .
237