From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 5 7:30:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta05-svc.ntlworld.com (mta05-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13EA537B408 for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2001 07:30:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from greid@FreeBSD.org) Received: from sobek.openirc.co.uk ([62.252.8.106]) by mta05-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.27 201-229-119-110) with ESMTP id <20010605143015.NAZM4151.mta05-svc.ntlworld.com@sobek.openirc.co.uk>; Tue, 5 Jun 2001 15:30:15 +0100 Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 15:30:13 +0100 (BST) From: George Reid X-Sender: greid@sobek.openirc.co.uk To: j mckitrick Cc: Cynic , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Nicolas Souchu Subject: Re: directions on setting up local CVS tree In-Reply-To: <20010605142045.A86090@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 Tue, 5 Jun 2001, j mckitrick wrote: > But how do i go about getting the FreeBSD CVS repository onto my local > machine? cvsup, as I expect you've probably been told already. > Can i install the one on my cdrom and 'update' it? If you have a copy of the CVS repository on a CD, this is the way to go. I'd offer to post you one, but it would probably take around 6 years to arrive. > Will it be *huge*? It's on the huge side, yes. > What transition is necessary to go from building world in /usr/src > and using a CVS tree instead? You can't build world from a CVS tree directly; you need to check the sources out (using the regular cvs tools) and build world as normal. -- +-------------------+---------------------+ | George Reid | FreeBSD Committer | | +44 7740 197460 | greid@FreeBSD.org | +-------------------+---------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message