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: v2.1.2):
- 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 v2_1_2 BackupPC
-Building an installable release from the source:
------------------------------------------------
+Building an installable release from the CVS source:
+---------------------------------------------------
* Edit makeDist and set the version number and release date
all the library paths etc back into the symbolic form (eg: __INSTALLDIR__)
so that configure.pl will do the right thing.
+ Often the language files are not up to date, and makeDist exits after
+ complaining about the lang files being inconsistent. Use the -l option
+ to turn off that checking.
+
* 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.
+ the release and a tar ball dist/BackupPC-VERSION.tar.gz. The tar
+ ball can be copied, extracted and installed using configure.pl
+ like any BackupPC release.