--- a/make-rules/shared-macros.mk	Fri Jun 05 13:54:25 2015 -0700
+++ b/make-rules/shared-macros.mk	Mon Jun 08 13:06:14 2015 -0700
@@ -79,6 +79,12 @@
 
 SHELL=	/bin/bash
 
+# If we are building "pre-release" software for the Solaris release repository
+# we want the PUBLISHER to be "solaris".
+ifeq ($(BUILD_TYPE),pre-release)
+PUBLISHER = solaris
+endif
+
 # We want "nightly" as our publisher, to match other consolidations and
 # facilitate migrations.  G11N wants $(CONSOLIDATION)-localizable for
 # the localizable publisher.