Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 09:31:22 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Christopher J. Michaels" <cjm2@earthling.net> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: CVS repository for 'make world'? Message-ID: <19990620093122.D1076@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <000201beba6b$258e43a0$0200000a@shithead.weeble.dyndns.org>; from Christopher J. Michaels on Sat, Jun 19, 1999 at 11:48:16AM -0400 References: <000201beba6b$258e43a0$0200000a@shithead.weeble.dyndns.org>
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On Saturday, 19 June 1999 at 11:48:16 -0400, Christopher J. Michaels wrote: > Hi, > I've done a little more reading about the process of doing a 'make release'. > I understand that I have to have the whole CVS repository on my drive before > I can doa 'make release'. I didn't know that, but it's possible. 'make release' is still deep magic. > Now, my questions is, can I use the CVS repository on my harddrive > for 'make world's also? Well, indirectly. You have to check out a version first. But you have to do that for make release as well. > All of the files that a regular cvsup would have, are also in the > CVS that I downloaded, aren't they? I'm not sure I understand the question. But the repository contains everything. > Is there some why I can just use those instead, or do I have to > setup a cvsup server on my machine and then use cvsup locally to > synchronize my /usr/src directory? In both cases, once you have your repository up to date, you check out a version and run 'make world' or 'make release'. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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