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Date:      Wed, 2 Apr 1997 21:08:02 -0800
From:      John-Mark Gurney <jmg@hydrogen.nike.efn.org>
To:        jack <jack@diamond.xtalwind.net>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: make release under 2.2.1-RELEASE
Message-ID:  <19970402210802.64256@hydrogen.nike.efn.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970402224044.2756A-100000@zeus.xtalwind.net>; from jack on Wed, Apr 02, 1997 at 11:50:22PM -0500
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970402224044.2756A-100000@zeus.xtalwind.net>

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jack scribbled this message on Apr 2:
> This morning we began converting our 5 BSDi boxes to FreeBSD. <G>  We
> shuffled some things around and freedup a p5-133 w/ ~5gig of drive space.
> Since we have many users with >8 char names i just did a bin and source
> install, edited utmp.h and param.h, and made world and the kernel.  All
> went well.  :)  My plan was to roll a release on that box and install to
> the others from it.  Make release has not gone well.  
> 
> ===> lkm/wcd
> install -c -o bin -g bin -m 555   wcd_mod.o /var/release/lkm
> cd /var/release/usr && rm -rf src &&  cvs -d  co -P -r RELENG_2_2 src
> cvs: invalid option -- P Usage: cvs [cvs-options] command
> [command-options] [files...]
> 
> Checking the Makefile it seems CVSROOT needs to be defined.  My first
> guess was /usr/src/CVS.  So much for that idea.  :(
> 
> cd /var/release/usr && rm -rf src && cvs -d /usr/src/CVS co -r RELENG_2_2 
> src 
> cvs co: Sorry, you don't have sufficient access to /usr/src/CVS 
> cvs [co aborted]: /usr/src/CVS/CVSROOT: No such file or directory
> 
> Help..
> 
> What part of TFM do I need to R?

you need to grabe a copy of the CVS tree...  and point the CVSROOT env
var to it...  the release requires the CVS tree to check out parts of
the code...

if you have any questions... I'll try to help, but I've never rolled a
release before...  hope you get it working... ttyl..

-- 
  John-Mark
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