diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng/article.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng/article.sgml index 5016496839..918cd679f4 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng/article.sgml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng/article.sgml @@ -145,8 +145,8 @@ New releases of FreeBSD are released from the -STABLE branch at approximately four month intervals. The FreeBSD release process begins to ramp up 45 days before the anticipated release - date when the release engineer send an email to the development - mailing lists to reming developers that they only have 15 days to + date when the release engineer sends an email to the development + mailing lists to remind developers that they only have 15 days to intergrate new changes before the code freeze. During this time, many developers perform what have become know as MFC sweeps. MFC stands for Merge @@ -178,12 +178,12 @@ Minor changes to device drivers, such as adding new Device - IDs + IDs. Any additional change that the release engineering team feels - is justified, given the potential risk + is justified, given the potential risk. @@ -500,6 +500,27 @@ + + Building XFree86 + + XFree86 is an important component for many desktop users. + The easiest way to build XFree86 is to use the + src/release/scripts/X11/build_x.sh script. + This script requires that XFree86 and Tcl/Tk already be + installed on the build host. After compiling the necessary X + servers, the script will package all of the files into tarballs + that sysinstall expects to find in the + XF86336 directory of the installation + media. + + It is important to remove any site-specific settings + from /etc/make.conf. For example, it would + be unwise to distribute binaries that were built on a system + with CPUTYPE set to a specific + processor. + + + Contributed Software (<quote>ports</quote>)