From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 27 2:24:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB45537B896 for ; Sat, 27 May 2000 02:24:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id SAA32785; Sat, 27 May 2000 18:53:54 +0930 (CST) Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 18:53:53 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Willem Brown Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make release Message-ID: <20000527185353.A32754@freebie.lemis.com> References: <392F7ED2.6BADD19A@brwn.org> <20000527174320.G30853@freebie.lemis.com> <392F8C28.A5E6AE4C@brwn.org> <20000527182319.A32417@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000527182319.A32417@freebie.lemis.com>; from grog@lemis.com on Sat, May 27, 2000 at 06:23:20PM +0930 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday, 27 May 2000 at 18:23:20 +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. Oops, this is wrong. RELENG_4 is the correct tag, but when you cvsup a repository, you don't specify a tag, since the repository contains all possible tags. Here are the relevant parts of my cvsupfile. You will need at least to add a host from which to sup. *default release=cvs *default base=/src/cvsup *default prefix=/home/ncvs *default delete *default use-rel-suffix *default compress src-all 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