Use the make release to produce a source tarball of the files making up the release and the ISO image. These are the two files which will be released to the world at large and producing them takes a LONG time.

[root@quesadilla nst]# make release
Attempting to check out current source code...

... lots of CVS messages as it checks out a fresh copy and compiles ...

[root@quesadilla nst]#