Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 14:59:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Marc Schneiders <marc@oldserver.demon.nl> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CVSROOT... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9910261457020.12797-100000@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910262255220.57778-100000@propro.oldserver.demon.nl>
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On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Marc Schneiders wrote: > On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Marc Schneiders wrote: > > > > > Where is my CVSROOT? I seem to need it for making release (of 4.0 on a > > > 4.0 system, current as of Oct 24). > > > > > > I checked the archives of this list. My question did pop up a few > > > times before in the same context.... but was not answered. > > > > > > Make release starts OK, but stops complaining there is no CVSROOT. > > > There isn't on my system. I checked. > > > > > > My cvsup-file reads: > > > > > > *default tag=. > > > *default host=cvsup2.nl.freebsd.org > > > *default prefix=/usr > > > *default base=/usr/local/etc/cvsup > > > *default release=cvs delete use-rel-suffix compress > > > > > > src-crypto > > > src-eBones > > > src-secure > > > src-all > > > ports-all > > > > you need to remove the "*default tag=." line entirely, you > > also need to set "*default prefix=/usr" to "*default prefix=/home/ncvs" > > you also need about 600 mb in /home/ncvs for the repo, you'll need > > about 400megs for the checked out source code. > > > > basically doing a release requires on the order of 1.5 gigs afaik. > > > > Thanks! I've made the changes to supfile as well as created the > directory and have enough space on the disk. It is coming in now. > However, all the files that are in /usr/src already are coming in once > more (with additional info I suppose, hence the added v to the > filenames). > > How do the two sets of the source I have relate? > > Can/should I throw out all in /usr/src. If not, how is /usr/src now > updated? And where do I make kernel etc? In /usr/src or in > /home/ncvs? > > Any pointers? the stuff that's being sucked down in /home/ncvs is the CVS repository the files actually contain every single change made to each file in a delta format. when you do a "cvs -d /home/ncvs co src" it will get the most recent version of each file and put it into $CWD/src. you really need to look at the cvs manpages and the CVS/CVSup sections on www.freebsd.org -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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