From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 11 14:08:04 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA23525 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 14:08:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from idiom.com (idiom.com [140.174.82.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA23441 for ; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 14:07:57 -0800 (PST) Received: (from muir@localhost) by idiom.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id OAA03166 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 14:07:25 -0800 Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 14:07:25 -0800 From: David Muir Sharnoff Message-Id: <199603112207.OAA03166@idiom.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Quick guide to using a sup'ed CVS tree? Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I can't find the right Fine Manual to Read... I sup'ed over the CVS tree and would like to check out stable into /usr/src. Occaisionally, I'll want to look at or integrate things from current. In a few cases, I'll want to make my own mods and make sure they don't get trashed. What do I do? What I did was look at the cvs info pages (which must be accessed by file name rather than from the info menu), looked at the cvs man page, looked at the cvs help info, and looked at the raw rcs log files. From all of this, I did a: cvs checkout -r RELENG_2_1_0_BP . But I have no confidence that it was the right thing to do. In particular, I couldn't find any file that said what the various tags were. So, is there any documentation that I could have found but didn't? Did I give the right command? Is there a better way? Thanks, -Dave P.S. Is there an easyish way to test my builds on a different system? (Testing the kernel is pretty obvious, but what about everything that goes with it?) P.P.S. Now that I've got all this stuff, can I build my own boot disks?