From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Feb 20 10:46:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mile.nevermind.kiev.ua (ppp-189.nbi.com.ua [194.153.87.189]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6971F37B4EC for ; Tue, 20 Feb 2001 10:46:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from never@mile.nevermind.kiev.ua) Received: (from never@localhost) by mile.nevermind.kiev.ua (8.11.2/8.11.2) id f1KIkDw16206; Tue, 20 Feb 2001 20:46:13 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from never) Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 20:46:11 +0200 From: Nevermind To: Joseph Stein Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make release & CVSROOT Message-ID: <20010220204611.B5357@nevermind.kiev.ua> References: <3A91FF0D.F9AA25F2@netvalue.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from joes@joescanner.com on Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 10:29:57PM -0800 X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, Joseph Stein! On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 10:29:57PM -0800, you wrote: > > > I'd like to know what else needs to be done to get make release work with > > > CVSROOT? > > > > You need to get the whole CVS tree using the provided > > /usr/share/examples/cvsup/cvs-supfile, and not only the CVSROOT, which > > contains mainly configuration parameters for cvs. You will need at least > > several GB of free space, as stated in the Makefile. > > Right now, the whole cvs repo (as fetched by > /usr/share/examples/cvsup/cvs-supfile) is registering at about 1 gig. I > did an entire make release (on 4.2-STABLE) on a 3G partition, with 650MB > left over. Could all of us send me some tips on your experience in `makereleasing', because right now I'm trying to assemble all this hints together to contribute to FreeBSD community handbook article about building releases? P.S. I'm not reacable right now at never@nevermind.kiev.ua, use neve_ripe@yahoo.com instead. -- NEVE-RIPE The instructions said to install Windows 98 or better, so I installed FreeBSD. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message