X-Git-Url: http://git.rot13.org/?p=BackupPC.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=CVS_README;h=782d4b7ffc123d7c627ed38c0aece2ea51ae0605;hp=8a061d4b753e2ea2bf8b9441963a68452203e608;hb=c2b072c9ad558447fb73fedf0cad170214b7d80e;hpb=1282f5f90cf092cb406ee186e6bf328875e4c306 diff --git a/CVS_README b/CVS_README index 8a061d4..782d4b7 100644 --- a/CVS_README +++ b/CVS_README @@ -21,14 +21,14 @@ Fetching CVS: 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 @@ -38,6 +38,11 @@ Building an installable release from the source: 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.