Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 18:55:16 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> Cc: Mark Ovens <mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>, Willem Brown <willem@brwn.org>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make release Message-ID: <20000527185515.D32417@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <392F92E0.3BEAA611@3-cities.com> References: <392F7ED2.6BADD19A@brwn.org> <20000527174320.G30853@freebie.lemis.com> <392F8C28.A5E6AE4C@brwn.org> <20000527182319.A32417@freebie.lemis.com> <20000527101228.E233@parish> <20000527184449.C32417@freebie.lemis.com> <392F92E0.3BEAA611@3-cities.com>
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On Saturday, 27 May 2000 at 2:18:24 -0700, Kent Stewart wrote: > > > Greg Lehey wrote: >> >> On Saturday, 27 May 2000 at 10:12:28 +0100, Mark Ovens wrote: >>> On Sat, May 27, 2000 at 06:23:20PM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: >>>> On Saturday, 27 May 2000 at 10:49:44 +0200, Willem Brown wrote: >>>>> Greg Lehey wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> On Saturday, 27 May 2000 at 9:52:50 +0200, Willem Brown wrote: >>>>>>> Hi, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I've cvsup'd my 4.0R to 4.0S and would like to do a >>>>>>> make release but I need a CVSROOT? What do I need to get still >>>>>>> for this to work? >>>>>> >>>>>> You need a CVS tree. It looks as if you cvsupped only the sources, >>>>>> right? >>>>>> >>>>>> It is possible to specify a remote CVS root, but you'll need to have >>>>>> some kind of access to it. You're probably better off cvsupping the >>>>>> repository rather than the sources. >>>>> >>>>> Thanks. I had a look at the sample files, >>>>> /usr/share/examples/cvsup/cvs-supfile. So to get the 4.0S branch, >>>>> I would use release=cvs tag=RELEN_4? >>>> >>>> Well, RELENG_4. >>>> >>>>> Can I convert the CVSUP'd sources to a repository without >>>>> having to get the whole repository. I'm a bit bandwidth impaired. >>>> >>>> Not easily. Theoretically you could just create a new repository and >>>> check the sources in with tag RELENG_4, but it would be a lot of work. >>>> If you have an old repository copy, such as on a CD-ROM set from >>>> Walnut Creek, you can easily update it with cvsup. >>>> >>> >>> Shouldn't that be cvs(1), not cvsup(1) for the repository? >> >> No. cvsup updates repositories, cvs manipulates them. After >> synchronizing the repository with cvsup, you update your source tree >> with cvs update. > > Is the CVS tree on any of the CD's or do I have to get the sources > with cvsup. It's called a repository, not a tree. As I said, it's on one of the CDs on recent CD sets from Walnut Creek, but I think it moves a bit, so check your CDs. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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