X-Git-Url: http://git.rot13.org/?p=BackupPC.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=CVS_README;h=3b958fae993b5c166908627d909e4d7938e9e00c;hp=782d4b7ffc123d7c627ed38c0aece2ea51ae0605;hb=9fecbd8a0fc6460ca8837c6b38dc9c03ed21c05e;hpb=cfeb65d0e5ef33ef54cf0e5aaa7b3790bf80bff3 diff --git a/CVS_README b/CVS_README index 782d4b7..3b958fa 100644 --- a/CVS_README +++ b/CVS_README @@ -23,26 +23,34 @@ Fetching CVS: cd somewhere/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: v2.1.2): +* To fetch the CVS code tagged at a particular release (eg: v3.2.0): - cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@backuppc.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/backuppc co -r v2_1_2 BackupPC + cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@backuppc.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/backuppc co -r v3_2_0 BackupPC Building an installable release from the CVS source: --------------------------------------------------- -* Edit makeDist and set the version number and release date - * 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. - 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. + 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. The tar - ball can be copied, extracted and installed using configure.pl +* 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.