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To: cdillon@tri-lakes.net, stable@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Making a release...
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In a message dated 97-10-18 21:48:39 EDT, cdillon@tri-lakes.net writes:

>  
>  On the command line, the CHROOTDIR, BUILDNAME, RELEASETAG, and CVSROOT can
>  and/or need to be set. CHROOTDIR and BUILDNAME are rather
>  self-explanatory.  The last to are not, to me at least.
>  
>  I've tried this and it doesn't work:
>  make release CHROOTDIR=/usr/RELEASE BUILDNAME=2.2.5-BETA
>  RELEASETAG=RELENG_2_2 CVSROOT=/usr
>  
>  It failed on something like "/usr/CVSROOT does not exist".  Hmm.. I think
>  I'll try CVSROOT=/ next time.. anyway.. More detailed instructions from

Don't, CVSROOT is used to indicate where your cvs repository is located.
While RELEASETAG, is a tag in the cvs repository, which indicates the branch
the sources should come from.  Check the man pages on cvs.

Scot