From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 27 2:18:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from corinth.bossig.com (corinth.bossig.com [208.26.239.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EDB237B8DD for ; Sat, 27 May 2000 02:18:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@3-cities.com) Received: from 3-cities.com (unverified [208.26.241.219]) by corinth.bossig.com (Rockliffe SMTPRA 4.2.1) with ESMTP id ; Sat, 27 May 2000 02:18:34 -0700 Message-ID: <392F92E0.3BEAA611@3-cities.com> Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 02:18:24 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Organization: BOSSig (BOSS Internet Group) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Lehey Cc: Mark Ovens , Willem Brown , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make release References: <392F7ED2.6BADD19A@brwn.org> <20000527174320.G30853@freebie.lemis.com> <392F8C28.A5E6AE4C@brwn.org> <20000527182319.A32417@freebie.lemis.com> <20000527101228.E233@parish> <20000527184449.C32417@freebie.lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greg Lehey wrote: > > On Saturday, 27 May 2000 at 10:12:28 +0100, Mark Ovens wrote: > > On Sat, May 27, 2000 at 06:23:20PM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> On Saturday, 27 May 2000 at 10:49:44 +0200, Willem Brown wrote: > >>> Greg Lehey wrote: > >>>> > >>>> On Saturday, 27 May 2000 at 9:52:50 +0200, Willem Brown wrote: > >>>>> Hi, > >>>>> > >>>>> I've cvsup'd my 4.0R to 4.0S and would like to do a > >>>>> make release but I need a CVSROOT? What do I need to get still > >>>>> for this to work? > >>>> > >>>> You need a CVS tree. It looks as if you cvsupped only the sources, > >>>> right? > >>>> > >>>> It is possible to specify a remote CVS root, but you'll need to have > >>>> some kind of access to it. You're probably better off cvsupping the > >>>> repository rather than the sources. > >>> > >>> Thanks. I had a look at the sample files, > >>> /usr/share/examples/cvsup/cvs-supfile. So to get the 4.0S branch, > >>> I would use release=cvs tag=RELEN_4? > >> > >> Well, RELENG_4. > >> > >>> Can I convert the CVSUP'd sources to a repository without > >>> having to get the whole repository. I'm a bit bandwidth impaired. > >> > >> Not easily. Theoretically you could just create a new repository and > >> check the sources in with tag RELENG_4, but it would be a lot of work. > >> If you have an old repository copy, such as on a CD-ROM set from > >> Walnut Creek, you can easily update it with cvsup. > >> > > > > Shouldn't that be cvs(1), not cvsup(1) for the repository? > > No. cvsup updates repositories, cvs manipulates them. After > synchronizing the repository with cvsup, you update your source tree > with cvs update. Is the CVS tree on any of the CD's or do I have to get the sources with cvsup. Kent > > Greg > -- > When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. > For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html > Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key > See complete headers for address and phone numbers > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message