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Date:      Sat, 27 May 2000 10:12:28 +0100
From:      Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        Willem Brown <willem@brwn.org>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: make release
Message-ID:  <20000527101228.E233@parish>
In-Reply-To: <20000527182319.A32417@freebie.lemis.com>; from grog@lemis.com on Sat, May 27, 2000 at 06:23:20PM %2B0930
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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?

> Greg
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