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From: Chris Timmons <skynyrd@opus.cts.cwu.edu>
To: dkelly@hiwaay.net
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Subject: Re: Just CVS (was Re: CVS question, sendmail, named) 
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Hmmmm.... doing a 'make release' without a CVS repository might be a
little hard.  It checks out a revision of the source for the release you
are building from CVS. However, you could certainly look through
/usr/src/release/Makefile to see if you could short-circuit things a bit
to use a copy of your local sources (skipping CVS.) 

One other thing you will want to know if you start rolling your own
releases:  you'll need to be running a kernel with the vn pseudo-device,
as in:

pseudo-device   vn              #Vnode driver (turns a file into a device)

If you have a slow machine and start a make release without running a
kernel that has this compiled in - you will get an unpleasant surprise :(


You don't NEED to have the CD-ROM to get the CVS repository, particularly
if you are in a LAN environment and have 56KB or greater connectivity. 
Doing the initial download over a slow dialup is likely to be
unsatisfying. 

-Chris


On Sun, 16 Feb 1997 dkelly@hiwaay.net wrote:

> Thanks for the reply, its been most helpfull.
> 
> I don't have a recent CDROM of FreeBSD. OTOH I have:
> 
> nexgen: {253} ls -CF /usr/sup
> ports-all/      src-all/        src-eBones/     src-secure/
> 
> ...created by cvsup using the file I posted earlier (and see below).
> 
> What I'm really trying to do (and maybe "make release" doesn't do it?) is 
> to build a -SNAP of my current sources in order to play with newer 
> sysinstall's and clone my system to friend's machines without having to 
> download the entire -GAMMA's.
> 
> Am I on the right track?
>