Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 11:57:16 +0200 From: Willem Brown <willem@brwn.org> To: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Mark Ovens <mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make release Message-ID: <392F9BFC.D9E9AEA8@brwn.org> 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> <392F92E0.3BEAA611@3-cities.com> <20000527185515.D32417@freebie.lemis.com> <392F96FE.D92E03BA@3-cities.com>
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Hi, Kent Stewart wrote: > > Greg Lehey wrote: > > > > On Saturday, 27 May 2000 at 2:18:24 -0700, Kent Stewart wrote: > > > > > > > > > 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. > > > > It's called a repository, not a tree. As I said, it's on one of the > > CDs on recent CD sets from Walnut Creek, but I think it moves a bit, > > so check your CDs. > > I've used CVS but not enough to remember the proper terminology. What > has my interest is getting people started with 4.0-Stable. A build > world of some of these machines won't take forever but it's close :). > I know most of them will go with the CD subscription if I can get them > interested. > > I was looking for the repository on the 4.0 disk and didn't see it. My > subscription started with 3.1. I'm looking at CD#2 now. I'll start > with the most recent version. Then, cvsup won't take so long. I couldn't find it on 3.3 or 3.4 as well. The latest one I could find is in the 3.2 #2 cd. I'll use that for starters. > > Thanks, > > Kent > > > > > Greg > > -- > > Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key > > See complete headers for address and phone numbers > > -- > 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 What about the international crypto code? Isn't that in a completely different repository? I guess you can compile that separately. Regards Willem Brown -- |--------------LINUX & *BSD, the CHOICE is yours--------------| To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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