make release fails -what to set CVSROOT ?

John Baldwin jhb at FreeBSD.org
Fri Jul 2 14:40:55 PDT 2004


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On Friday 02 July 2004 04:12 pm, Kim Culhan wrote:
> Setting CVSROOT to /usr/src is obviously the wrong thing
> as it results in:
>
> cd /tmp/release/usr &&  cvs -R  -d "/usr/src"  co  -P ports
> cvs checkout: cannot find module `ports' - ignored
> *** Error code 1
>
> Have a src tree at /usr/src and made world here..
>
> Have a ports tree at /usr/ports
>
> Where am I going wrong ..anyone?

make release needs an actual CVS repository rather than checked out trees.  If 
you want to use checked out trees there are some variables you can use to 
tell make release to get its trees from there rather than using cvs: 
EXTSRCDIR, EXTDOCDIR, and EXTPORTSDIR.

- -- 
John Baldwin <jhb at FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
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