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Date:      Mon, 25 Feb 2002 07:43:41 +0000
From:      Simon Dick <simond@irrelevant.org>
To:        Dan Trainor <dan@ript.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 'make release'
Message-ID:  <20020225074340.GA2378@irrelevant.org>
In-Reply-To: <005e01c1bdd0$310960f0$0a00a8c0@broken>
References:  <3C79A01C.50600@owt.com> <005e01c1bdd0$310960f0$0a00a8c0@broken>

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On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 12:44:00AM -0700, Dan Trainor wrote:
> Wonderful, thanks.  The "problem" here is that make errors out with:
> 
> cd /usr/release-1/usr && rm -rf src &&  cvs -R -d /usr/src co -P src
> cvs [checkout aborted]: /usr/src/CVSROOT: No such file or directory
> *** Error code 1
> 
> It looks like it's expecting a CVSROOT dir, and there is none.  I am
> also thinking that perhaps it's referring to $CVSROOT, which is an
> argument for 'make release'.  But I'd imagine that, if this is how they
> actually make releases, an error on the Makefile is basically unheard
> of.
> 
> Any suggestions?  

When I made my own 4.5 release ISO, the make release process checked out
4.5 src from my local CVS repositry. As far as I know you do need to have
a local copy of the cvs tree unless you hack the release scripts (which
should be possible, I just have no idea if it's been done by anyone or
not!)

-- 
Simon Dick					simond@irrelevant.org
"Why do I get this urge to go bowling everytime I see Tux?"

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