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?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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