make release fails -what to set CVSROOT ?

[Ruslan Ermilov]

On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 05:40:38PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
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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?
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> 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.
> 
And one still needs to set CVSROOT=/red/herring in the latter case.
Care to fix this?  ;)


Cheers,
-- 
Ruslan Ermilov
ru at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer
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