From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 4 6:30: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.bfm.org (mail.bfm.org [216.127.218.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60FDB37B6CC for ; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 06:29:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Ryugen@palaver.org) Received: from primo.bfm.org ([216.127.218.20]) by mail.bfm.org (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-52399U2500L250S0V35) with SMTP id org for ; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 08:30:47 -0500 Received: from portapad.palaver.org (unverified [24.217.5.61]) by primo.bfm.org (EMWAC SMTPRS 0.83) with SMTP id ; Tue, 04 Apr 2000 08:29:55 -0500 Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20000404082401.00a8a840@mail.palaver.org> X-Sender: rfisher@mail.palaver.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 08:29:46 -0500 To: Micke Josefsson From: Ryugen@palaver.org (Ryugen C. Fisher) Subject: Re: $CVSROOT Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <4.3.2.20000404063824.00aad280@mail.palaver.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 08:07 AM 4/4/00, Micke Josefsson wrote: >On 04-Apr-00 Ryugen C. Fisher wrote: > > Rudeness was not an intention...... humor was... note, please, the doubt > > about ability was SELF directed.... > > > > > > At 06:59 PM 04/03/2000, you wrote: > >>Ryugen C. Fisher wrote: > >> > >> > I'm trying to get to the place where I can do a "make world" and I'm > >> > having serious doubts about my ability to read English.. perhaps someone > >> > raised in England might lend a hand???? > >> > >>Being rude is NOT the best way to make people want to help you. Neither > >>is forgetting to cc -questions when you reply. > >> > >>Anyway, I'm not sure why CVSROOT has anything to do with "make > >>world", you do not need a CVS repository to make the world. All you > >>need is a checked out copy of the source tree in /usr/src. While > >>this MAY be obtained using cvs (which you need CVSROOT pointing at > >>your copy of the repository for), it is common to use cvsup for > >>this. Take a look at "Synchronizing Your Source" in the FreeBSD > >>Handbook for more information, or the sample cvsup supfiles under > >>/usr/share/examples/cvsup. > > > >In short: edit the stable-supfile in /usr/share/examples/cvsup: Make it >point to a cvsup-server near you. (I use cvsup.se.freebsd.se for example). > >This the essential lines of mine: > >*default host=cvsup.se.FreeBSD.org >*default base=/usr >*default prefix=/usr >*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_3 >*default delete use-rel-suffix >src-all > > >Having done that, and assuming you got X running: ># cvsup /usr/share/examples/stable-supfile >will get a window up. Click start or whatever and it should start pumping new >src into the veins of your machine. > >(I also misunderstood user ncvs and $CVSROOT for a start) I have done that.. except that the tag I used was RELENG_3_4 so far that does not and has not re-created the usr/src source tree that I am given to understand is essential for a "make world" command to succeed... and the variable $CVSROOT is still asked for when the command fails... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message