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 Release Engineering Team <re@FreeBSD.org> and inform them of the
release package location.
Remember to coordinate with the Release Engineering Team <re@FreeBSD.org> about the timing and status
of the release builds.