summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
-rw-r--r--share/man/man7/release.721
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man7/release.7 b/share/man/man7/release.7
index ad744a6d3dbf..7fc81f0cf945 100644
--- a/share/man/man7/release.7
+++ b/share/man/man7/release.7
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd March 12, 2002
+.Dd August 2, 2004
.Dt RELEASE 7
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -247,9 +247,12 @@ then the associated release version is used as the default instead.
The directory that will be copied to
.Pa ${CHROOTDIR}/usr/local .
.It Va EXTSRCDIR
-The directory that will be used as the
-.Pa src/
-tree instead of a CVS checkout.
+The directory specified by this variable will be copied into
+.Pa ${CHROOTDIR}/usr/src
+instead of that directory being populated by a CVS checkout.
+For
+.Dq Li "rerelease" ,
+this will NOT be copied; cvs update will be used instead.
.It Va KERNEL_FLAGS
The contents of this variable are passed to
.Xr make 1
@@ -414,16 +417,16 @@ to execute up to four processes at a time.
.El
.Sh EXAMPLES
The following sequence of commands was used to build the
-.Fx 4.5
+.Fx 4.9
release:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
cd /usr
-cvs co -rRELENG_4_5_0_RELEASE src
+cvs co -rRELENG_4_9_0_RELEASE src
cd src
make buildworld
cd release
-make release CHROOTDIR=/local3/release BUILDNAME=4.5-RELEASE \\
- CVSROOT=/host/cvs/usr/home/ncvs RELEASETAG=RELENG_4_5_0_RELEASE
+make release CHROOTDIR=/local3/release BUILDNAME=4.9-RELEASE \\
+ CVSROOT=/host/cvs/usr/home/ncvs RELEASETAG=RELENG_4_9_0_RELEASE
.Ed
.Pp
After running these commands, a complete system suitable for FTP or
@@ -514,4 +517,4 @@ documentation from the last fully supported release of
.Fx .
For example:
.Pp
-.Dl "make release RELEASETAG=RELENG_4_5 DOCRELEASETAG=RELEASE_4_5_0 ..."
+.Dl "make release RELEASETAG=RELENG_4_9 DOCRELEASETAG=RELEASE_4_9_0 ..."