Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 01:28:47 -0600 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Can "make rerelease" go backwards? Message-ID: <41A1952F.1010108@daleco.biz>
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I recently tried something new ... built my own release
with what I (naively || <stupidly?>) thought would be
RELENG_5_3 sources. I'm hoping to use this "release
server" to set up boxes for the foreseeable future, so
I really want 5.3-RELEASE. It was a neat experience,
not so hard as it seemed at first, and it was tre kewl to
watch FreeBSD install via FTP over a LAN ....
However, in setting only the three variables required,
with CVSROOT equal to:
freebsdanoncvs@anoncvs.freebsd.org:/home/ncvs,
I ended up with 6.X-CURRENT sources, as I'm sure
that anyone familiar with the process could easily have
foreseen (I guess I thought that somehow BUILDNAME
might have something to do with it, besides the obvious).
If I set CVSCMDARGS to the time that 5.3-RELEASE was
tagged, will a "make rerelease" do the equivalent of
"turning back the clock" without having to clean out
the source tree, etc? I had to move a box from here
to the colo (and then back again) to get enough bw
to do the job (after 3 unsuccessful tries from here)
and would really like to do the job with minimal
"pull" from the 'Net if possible ....
Anyone have a recommendation? Or is it "back to
the colo" and "make release" again?
Thank you!
Kevin Kinsey
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