10. Release Builds
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## 10. Release Builds

When building packages for a release, it may be necessary to manually update the `ports` and `src` trees to the release tag and use `-novcs` and `-noportsvcs`.

To build package sets intended for use on a CD-ROM, use the `-cdrom` option to `dopackages`.

If the disk space is not available on the cluster, use `-nodistfiles` to avoid collecting distfiles.

After the initial build completes, restart the build with `-restart -fetch-original` to collect updated distfiles as well. Then, once the build is post-processed, take an inventory of the list of files fetched:

`%` `cd `${arch}`/`${branch}`` `%` `find distfiles > distfiles-`${release}``

You should use that output to periodically clean out the distfiles from `ftp-master`. When space gets tight, distfiles from recent releases can be kept while others can be thrown away.

Once the distfiles have been uploaded (see below), the final release package set must be created. Just to be on the safe side, run the ``${arch}`/`${branch}`/cdrom.sh` script by hand to make sure all the CD-ROM restricted packages and distfiles have been pruned. Then, copy the ``${arch}`/`${branch}`/packages` directory to ``${arch}`/`${branch}`/packages-`${release}``. Once the packages are safely moved off, contact the re@FreeBSD.org and inform them of the release package location.

Remember to coordinate with the re@FreeBSD.org about the timing and status of the release builds.

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