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From: Eric Schnoebelen <eric@mr-bill.cirr.com>
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Subject: Release process doesn't document required securelevel settings
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>Number:         42339
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       Release process doesn't document required securelevel settings
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    murray
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Sep 02 13:30:02 PDT 2002
>Closed-Date:    Sat Apr 12 20:49:42 PDT 2003
>Last-Modified:  Sat Apr 12 20:49:42 PDT 2003
>Originator:     Eric Schnoebelen
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE i386
>Organization:
Central Iowa (Model) Railroad, Plano, TX
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD mr-bill.cirr.com 4.6-STABLE FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE #8: Sun Sep 1 02:46:51 CDT 2002 root@mr-bill.cirr.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MR-BILL i386


>Description:
	The release process documentation (at
	http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng/ does
	_not_ document the requirement that the system building the
	release be running with a sysctl setting for kern.securelevel of
	< 0.  In experimentation, I find that kern.securelevel _must_ be
	set to -1 for a release to successfully be built.

	This requirement really needs to be spelled out somewhere in the
	document.
>How-To-Repeat:
	# sysctl -w kern.securelevel=1
	# cd /usr/src/release
	# make release
>Fix:
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->analyzed 
State-Changed-By: murray 
State-Changed-When: Mon Apr 7 04:41:00 PDT 2003 
State-Changed-Why:  
I added a sentence about this to release(7).  I will MFC this change 
in a few days.  Thanks for bringing this to our attention. 



Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-doc->murray 
Responsible-Changed-By: murray 
Responsible-Changed-When: Mon Apr 7 04:41:00 PDT 2003 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
I added a sentence about this to release(7).  I will MFC this change 
in a few days.  Thanks for bringing this to our attention. 


http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=42339 
State-Changed-From-To: analyzed->closed 
State-Changed-By: murray 
State-Changed-When: Sat Apr 12 20:49:18 PDT 2003 
State-Changed-Why:  
This is now documented in the release(7) man page on both -CURRENT and 
-STABLE.  Thanks for the report. 


http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=42339 
>Unformatted:
