docs/140490: Add custom kernel information to Release Engineering Article

[Murray Stokely]

The following reply was made to PR docs/140490; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Murray Stokely <murray at stokely.org>
To: Jason Helfman <jhelfman at e-e.com>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: docs/140490: Add custom kernel information to Release Engineering 
	Article
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:19:58 -0800

 This looks like a good change to me.  Thanks for the submission.
 
          - Murray
 
 
 On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Jason Helfman <jhelfman at e-e.com> wrote:
 >
 >>Number: =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 140490
 >>Category: =A0 =A0 =A0 docs
 >>Synopsis: =A0 =A0 =A0 Add custom kernel information to Release Engineerin=
 g Article
 >>Confidential: =A0 no
 >>Severity: =A0 =A0 =A0 non-critical
 >>Priority: =A0 =A0 =A0 low
 >>Responsible: =A0 =A0freebsd-doc
 >>State: =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0open
 >>Quarter:
 >>Keywords:
 >>Date-Required:
 >>Class: =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0change-request
 >>Submitter-Id: =A0 current-users
 >>Arrival-Date: =A0 Wed Nov 11 19:10:01 UTC 2009
 >>Closed-Date:
 >>Last-Modified:
 >>Originator: =A0 =A0 Jason Helfman
 >>Release: =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0FreeBSD 7.2
 >>Organization:
 > Experts Exchange
 >>Environment:
 > FreeBSD eggman.experts-exchange.com 7.2-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p4=
  #0: Fri Oct =A02 12:21:39 UTC 2009 =A0 =A0 root at i386-builder.daemonology.n=
 et:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC =A0i386
 >>Description:
 > Add custom kernel instructions to Releng Article.
 >>How-To-Repeat:
 >
 >>Fix:
 >
 >
 > Patch attached with submission follows:
 >
 > --- article.sgml.orig =A0 2009-06-24 15:25:26.000000000 -0700
 > +++ article.sgml =A0 =A0 =A0 =A02009-11-11 11:01:26.000000000 -0800
 > @@ -798,6 +798,17 @@
 > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 should be made bootable so that users of modern PCs do no=
 t
 > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 need to create installation floppy disks.</para>
 >
 > + =A0 =A0 =A0<para>If a custom kernel of &os; is to be included, then
 > + =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0&man.sysinstall.8; and &man.release.7; must be updated t=
 o
 > + =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0include installation instructions. The relevant code is =
 contained
 > + =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0in <filename>src/release</filename> and <filename>src/us=
 r.sbin/sysinstall</filename>.
 > + =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Specifically, the file <filename>src/release/Makefile</f=
 ilename>, and
 > + =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0<filename>dist.c</filename>, <filename>dist.h</filename>=
 ,
 > + =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0<filename>menus.c</filename>, <filename>install.c</filen=
 ame>, and
 > + =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0<filename>Makefile</filename> will need to be updated un=
 der
 > + =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0<filename>src/usr.sbin/sysinstall</filename>. =A0Optiona=
 lly, you may choose
 > + =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0to update <filename>sysinstall.8</filename>.</para>
 > +
 > =A0 =A0 =A0 <para>If an alternate version of &xfree86; is to be provided,=
  then
 > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 &man.sysinstall.8; must be updated to reflect the new loc=
 ation
 > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 and installation instructions. The relevant code is conta=
 ined
 >
 >
 >>Release-Note:
 >>Audit-Trail:
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