From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 27 9:29:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dragonstar.dhs.org (dsl-028-a.resnet.purdue.edu [128.211.161.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 872FE37B9FF; Mon, 27 Mar 2000 09:29:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jonsmith@dragonstar.dhs.org) Received: from localhost (jonsmith@localhost) by dragonstar.dhs.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA24710; Mon, 27 Mar 2000 12:20:55 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jonsmith@dragonstar.dhs.org) Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 12:20:55 -0500 (EST) From: Jonathan Smith To: John Baldwin Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: RE: make release In-Reply-To: <200003271623.LAA85892@server.baldwin.cx> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG So, I just need to set the directory that my CVSUP goes into? This doesn't make sense since this doesn't create a cvs repository, just the source (ie. cvs export). Pardon the confusion on this, but it is a bit.... something. j. -- Close your eyes. Now forget what you see. What do you feel? -- My heart. -- Come here. -- Your heart. -- See? We're exactly the same. Jon Smith -- Senior Math Major @ Purdue On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, John Baldwin wrote: > > On 27-Mar-00 Jonathan Smith wrote: > > > > I keep getting etherally screwed up trying to do a make release when it > > comes to a CVSROOT. I'm doing this from having done a cvsup, which > > apparrently isn't enough. I was given the direction to do anonymously do > > a cvs checkout, but that a CVS repository does not make; that makes a > > checked out copy of the source. > > Your best bet is to just cvsup the entire CVS repository. There should be > example cvsup files for this in /usr/share/examples/cvsup/. For example, > I store my local copy of the repo on /usr/cvs on my machine. I can then > set CVSROOT to /usr/cvs and then use make release to build a release. > > > Can somone give me the actual proceduire from doing a make release? WHen > > I _finally_ dug to the one web page on the subject it did not give me > > adequate information. > > I think I just used the FAQ and the actual src/release/Makefile. > > > jon smith > > -- > > John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ > PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc > "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message