CVSROOT missing even after using cvsroot-all

[Scot W. Hetzel]

From: "Chris Miller" <ctodd at netgate.net>
> I'm trying to create a 4.7 release on my system using the tools in
> /usr/src/release but make fails with a cvs abort error due to no CVSROOT
> directory. I saw the announcement in the archive to add cvsroot-all to the
> supfile yet no CVSROOT directory gets created. I must be doing something
> simple wrong.

> make release CHROOTDIR=/usr/release BUILDNAME=4.7-RELEASE-p10
> CVSROOT=/usr/src
>
You need a cvs repository on your system, not a cvsupped sources.  Use the
net/cvsup-mirror port to get your cvs repository.

Then you set CVSROOT to the location of the cvs files.

    CVSROOT=/usr/home/ncvs

Now you use cvs to checkout your /usr/src.

Scot