make release headaches

[Erik Trulsson]

On Sat, May 10, 2003 at 09:08:38PM +0200, L. Jankok wrote:
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> When I do a make buildworld and try to do a make release it will fail 
> telling that it needs the CVSROOT directory.
> 
> I do cvsup /etc/cvs-supfile and receive nothing ;
> 	# /etc/cvs-supfile
> 	*default host=cvsup3.nl.freebsd.org
> 	*default base=/usr
> 	*default prefix=/usr
> 	*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4_8 
> 	*default delete use-rel-suffix
> 	*default compress
> 	cvsroot-all

Shouldn't you have the src-all collection here also?  Getting the
actual sources also just might be useful, you know.

> 
> If I remove tag=RELENG_4_8 from the above I will receive the CVS* directories.
> I wonder why I have to remove tag=RELENG_4_8 to be able to receive the CVS dirs.


'make release' requires that you have a local copy of the whole cvs
repository. It then checks out a copy of the desired release from the
repository in order to create the release.  If you don't specify a tag
cvsup will fetch the whole repository for you (currently at some
1.5GB). If you specify a tag you will get only the sources with that
tag, which is all that is needed for a normal buildworld. (The normal
source tree is about 300MB in size.)


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