freebsd stable - May 2003 - make release headaches

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

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.

I use the script below to me make the release, and it fails telling me the
following ; Cannot check out files into the repository itself.
Instead of moving the CVS* files to /home/newcvs I altered 
*default prefix=/usr to *default prefix=/home/newcvs and did a 
cvsup /etc/cvs-supfile again and also changed CVSROOT to /home/newcvs.
Now another error occurs ; there is no repository /home/newcvs/src.
A more /usr/src/release/Makefile showed me that I need to make
three symlinks in /home/newcvs/{doc,ports,src}.
This is already going much to far for a simple procedure.. And yet
again I will receive another error : no such tag RELENG_4_8

If I change RELEASETAG from RELENG_4_8 to 4.8 make release will proceed 
(I tend to abort this mission now but I am curios where this will stop..
CVS insists on 4.8 Release all the time while cvsup has no problem..).
Again I will receive an error message;
cd: can't cd to /usr/release/usr/src/sys/conf..
and it stops here for me ;) .. going further will feel like remaking
frankenstein.

Can somebody explain to me why the above is going so terribly wrong ?.
I tried man release ans the FreeBSD handbook without luck.

	# define needed variables for make release
	CHROOTDIR=/usr/release
	BUILDNAME=4.8-RELENG
	CVSROOT=/usr
	RELEASETAG=RELENG_4_8
	NOPORTS=YES
	MAKE_ISOS=YES
	export CHROOTDIR BUILDNAME CVSROOT RELEASETAG NOPORTS MAKE_ISOS

	# make a ftp install dir and ISO's
	cd /usr/src/release
	make release

-- 
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so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.  
	--Bertrand Russell

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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