From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 24 23:44:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nelly.internal.irrelevant.org (irrelevant.demon.co.uk [158.152.220.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EB2C37B427 for ; Sun, 24 Feb 2002 23:44:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from simond by nelly.internal.irrelevant.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1) id 16fFnR-0000d9-00; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 07:43:41 +0000 Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 07:43:41 +0000 From: Simon Dick To: Dan Trainor Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 'make release' Message-ID: <20020225074340.GA2378@irrelevant.org> References: <3C79A01C.50600@owt.com> <005e01c1bdd0$310960f0$0a00a8c0@broken> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <005e01c1bdd0$310960f0$0a00a8c0@broken> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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