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Date:      Mon, 27 Mar 2000 13:23:46 -0500 (EST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Jonathan Smith <jonsmith@dragonstar.dhs.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   RE: make release
Message-ID:  <200003271823.NAA86017@server.baldwin.cx>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003271219070.24705-100000@dragonstar.dhs.org>

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On 27-Mar-00 Jonathan Smith wrote:
> So, I just need to set the directory that my CVSUP goes into?

You cvsup the repository, not /usr/src.  Look at the example cvsup files in
/usr/share/example/cvsup, specifically cvs-supfile.

> This doesn't make sense since this doesn't create a cvs repository, just
> the source (ie. cvs export).

It'll make a full repo if you cvsup the repository instead of just the source.

> Pardon the confusion on this, but it is a bit.... something.

Heh, it's ok.

> j.
> 
> On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, John Baldwin wrote:
>> On 27-Mar-00 Jonathan Smith wrote:
>> > 
>> > I keep getting etherally screwed up trying to do a make release when it
>> > comes to a CVSROOT.  I'm doing this from having done a cvsup, which
>> > apparrently isn't enough.  I was given the direction to do anonymously do
>> > a cvs checkout, but that a CVS repository does not make; that makes a
>> > checked out copy of the source.
>> 
>> Your best bet is to just cvsup the entire CVS repository.  There should be
>> example cvsup files for this in /usr/share/examples/cvsup/.  For example,
>> I store my local copy of the repo on /usr/cvs on my machine.  I can then
>> set CVSROOT to /usr/cvs and then use make release to build a release.

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