If memory serves me right, Terry Lambert wrote: > "Bruce A. Mah" wrote:
> > > > and you could > > > > use _that_ to recover it). A tag, in this case, would only be > > > > useful if the other RC2 changes (string changes, hacks to suppress > > > > known bugs, etc., mostly) were made in a branch off the tag, in > > > > the main source tree, rather than in P4. > > > > Once again, 5.0-RC2 didn't have a darn thing to do with P4. I'm also > > unaware of any "other RC2 changes". > > I was under the impression that the version string carried "RC2" in > it; I'm willing to be mistaken. I thought there were also manual > additions to the CDROM, such that it wasn't a pure "built from source > tree" thing. Ah, OK. It sounded to me like you meant we checked out src/ and then tweaked it a bunch (in P4 or locally) before rolling the snapshot. For the benefit of everyone else, it doesn't work that way. "5.0-RC2" comes from explicitly setting the BUILDNAME variable during "make release". The only things that get added manually afterwards are: 1) packages and 2) the DOS utilities such as fdimage.exe. > Arguably, for releases, there should probably be an image on the > CDROMs that would never fit on a floppy, and has the debugger on > it, with symbols in the kernel, to let people debug things like > this. I expect if that ever happens, it won't be the default > distribution, anyway. > > In any case, that's what we've been telling the guy to build, in > order to debug his upgrade problem. Hmmmm. It doesn't sound impossible to do, but it almost certainly won't happen for 5.0. For the DPs we built debug kernels on the ISO images (in addition to the regular GENERIC kernels), but I can't remember if they fit the requirements of what you listed above. I remember setting a variable for "make release" to do this, but it was otherwise automated. Bruce. PS. If the original poster is still following this, 5.0-RC3 snapshots are going to start building hopefully in the next 12 hours (awaiting an MFC of some ata(4) fixes from sos@).
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