mkdir somewhere/BackupPC
cd somewhere/BackupPC
- cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.backuppc.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/backuppc co BackupPC
+ cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@backuppc.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/backuppc co BackupPC
-* To fetch the CVS code tagged at a particular release (eg: v1.5.0):
+* To fetch the CVS code tagged at a particular release (eg: v3.2.0):
- cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.backuppc.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/backuppc co -r v1_5_0 BackupPC
+ cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@backuppc.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/backuppc co -r v3_2_0 BackupPC
-Building an installable release from the source:
------------------------------------------------
-
-* Edit makeDist and set the version number and release date
+Building an installable release from the CVS source:
+---------------------------------------------------
* Update makeDist and configure.pl if you add any new files to the release.
-* Run makeDist. makeDist merges the version number, release date and turns
- all the library paths etc back into the symbolic form (eg: __INSTALLDIR__)
+* Run makeDist, using arguments to specify the release date and version:
+
+ makeDist --releasedate '29 Mar 2009' --version 3.2.0beta0
+
+ makeDist merges the version number, release date and turns all the
+ library paths etc back into the symbolic form (eg: __INSTALLDIR__)
so that configure.pl will do the right thing.
-* You should now have a sub-directory dist/BackupPC-version containing
- the release and a tar ball dist/BackupPC-version.tar.gz. The tar
- ball can be copied, extracted and installed like any BackupPC release.
+ Sometime the language files are not up to date, and makeDist exits
+ after complaining about the lang files being inconsistent. Use
+ the --nolangCheck option to turn off that checking.
+
+ By default makeDist does a syntax check on all the source files.
+ If you want to skip that you can use tune --nosyntaxCheck option, eg:
+
+ makeDist --nolangCheck --nosyntaxCheck --releasedate '31 Jul 2010' --version 3.2.0
+
+* You should now have a sub-directory dist/BackupPC-VERSION containing
+ the release and a tar ball dist/BackupPC-VERSION.tar.gz. You can
+ cd to dist/BackupPC-VERSION and run configure.pl from there, or
+ the tar ball can be copied, extracted and installed using configure.pl
+ like any BackupPC release.