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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: CVS and NEW RELEASE NEEDED !!! Date: 16 May 1996 12:39:53 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 36 Message-ID: <4nf7mp$22s@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4mleu4$k3@relaybr.eunet.fr> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Eric Feillant <Ffeillan@utopia.eunet.fr> wrote: > " You need to set CVSROOT" ...... what's CVS ? what can i do for > having the all distribution ? what does i need to set to CVSROOT ? You've been asking me this more than once in private mail. Apparently, you have major troubles figuring out anything about this yourself. (Otherwise, you would perhaps have typed an ``apropos cvs'' before.) I doubt you will ever get round to make a release, in case some difficulty will pop up in front of you... (which is not that unlikely, after all, /usr/src/release/ is _our_ area intended for the release engineering, it's merely a courtesy and question of being able to co-ordinate our own efforts that we provide this to the public as well). CVS is the version management system FreeBSD is using. You can subscribe to get the CVS deltas, carefully read the handbook, in particular the section about ``How to stay -current.''. Julian Elischer volunteered to de-couple the boot floppy creation from a ``make release'' lately, but it will certainly take some time until it's all up and running. Sorry to sound rude, but if somebody wishes to do something not so usual, we require him to try to figuring out something himself, too. After all, it's a nice gift that you can ask the developers of the system directly (you can't do this for most of the commercial systems!), but in exchange, we expect you to do your own homework as well. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)