You may want to pick up my version of src/Makefile from FreeBSD, it is
a good place to start on automating the whole release process.

(I just type make release to build a full release once I have a populater
/usr/obj tree).

It has some ugly stuff in it that will need to change for NetBSD, but
it will give you a good place to start.

> 
> > >> The 'make install' step copies the boot block images to the target
> > >> directory /usr/mdec. If the directory does not exist, the operation
> > >> fails.
> > 
> > Kim> Shouldn't it be made when going to src/etc and make-ing
> > Kim> distrib-dirs ?  I guess this little directory is mostly
> > Kim> overlooked.
> > 
> > Actually, I think that we should remove all the mkdirs/chowns/chmods
> > from the distrib-dirs target, update the mtree datafiles, and use
> > mtree to create them.
> 
> yes, and from the install targets!
> 
> > If we break the distribution-building process into these steps.
> > 
> > 	1. make directories with mtree
> > 
> > 	2. install binaries into ${DESTDIR}
> > 
> > 	3. install source into ${DESTDIR}
> > 
> > 	4. install /etc config files
> 
> that's a good outline.
> 
> > We could change that line to:
> > 	(chroot ${DESTDIR}/etc pwd_mkdb -p master.passwd)
> 
> that sounds reasonable.
> 
> > Chris, could you comment on how you make the official distributions?
> > You have a unique perspective on this, since you've actually done it.
> 
> this would be a wonderful improvement.  one of the reasons that
> i hate making distributions is because i do the bootstrapping by
> hand...  i.e. rather than use mtree and DESTDIR, i've in the
> past "cvs get"ted a /usr/src tree, "make obj"ed, made the binaries,
> copied a few binaries out of the new tree (e.g. sh), chrooted
> into the new tree, dragged binaries out of th obj dirs as necessary
> until i could get the thing to install itself.  The method you
> outline is the way to do it, but, for 0.8, i didn't have time
> to set things up that way.
> 
> then 0.9 happened, and again, time hadn't been found, so...
> 
> and so on.
> 
> all of the distribution directories hacks in etc/Makefile are
> brokennesses to facilitate my alien release buiding strategy.
> They (and the "install -d"s in program/library install targets,
> which are there for the sam reason) should go away, and mtree
> should be used instead, as you stated.
> 
> 
> 
> chris
> 


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