From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 19 17: 1:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99CCB15345 for ; Sat, 19 Jun 1999 17:01:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id JAA02542; Sun, 20 Jun 1999 09:31:20 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id JAA02776; Sun, 20 Jun 1999 09:31:22 +0930 (CST) Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 09:31:22 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: "Christopher J. Michaels" Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: CVS repository for 'make world'? Message-ID: <19990620093122.D1076@freebie.lemis.com> References: <000201beba6b$258e43a0$0200000a@shithead.weeble.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <000201beba6b$258e43a0$0200000a@shithead.weeble.dyndns.org>; from Christopher J. Michaels on Sat, Jun 19, 1999 at 11:48:16AM -0400 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday, 19 June 1999 at 11:48:16 -0400, Christopher J. Michaels wrote: > Hi, > I've done a little more reading about the process of doing a 'make release'. > I understand that I have to have the whole CVS repository on my drive before > I can doa 'make release'. I didn't know that, but it's possible. 'make release' is still deep magic. > Now, my questions is, can I use the CVS repository on my harddrive > for 'make world's also? Well, indirectly. You have to check out a version first. But you have to do that for make release as well. > All of the files that a regular cvsup would have, are also in the > CVS that I downloaded, aren't they? I'm not sure I understand the question. But the repository contains everything. > Is there some why I can just use those instead, or do I have to > setup a cvsup server on my machine and then use cvsup locally to > synchronize my /usr/src directory? In both cases, once you have your repository up to date, you check out a version and run 'make world' or 'make release'. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message