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To: Mike Smith <mhsmith@ee.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: make release
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Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 20:23:09 +0200 (CEST)
From: Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@neomedia.it>
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> I need to do an NFS install, so I'm trying to build a distribution. I
> frequently keep my sources up to date with cvsup. When I cd to
> /usr/src/release and do a make release, it wants a CVSROOT variable, but I
> have no idea what to put here. I don't have folder containing the files
> it's looking for. Thanks.


It  is looking for FreeBSD's CVS repository (or "repo" for short). Among the cvsup 
examples (/usr/share/examples/cvsup) should be found one Mr. cvs-supfile.

Extensive discussions (and woes) can be found in the archives. 

Make release is THE industrial strenght test for your hardware :-)

-- Salvo

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