From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 27 16:11:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from praseodumium.btinternet.com (praseodumium.btinternet.com [194.73.73.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C4C037B536 for ; Sat, 27 May 2000 16:11:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org) Received: from [62.7.59.234] (helo=parish.my.domain) by ruthenium.btinternet.com with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #1) id 12vckk-0005M6-00; Sat, 27 May 2000 10:19:30 +0100 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA00798; Sat, 27 May 2000 10:19:18 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 10:19:17 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Greg Lehey Cc: Willem Brown , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make release Message-ID: <20000527101917.F233@parish> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000527184449.C32417@freebie.lemis.com>; from grog@lemis.com on Sat, May 27, 2000 at 06:44:50PM +0930 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, May 27, 2000 at 06:44:50PM +0930, 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. > Ah right, thanks. > 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 -- ...and on the eighth day God created UNIX ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message