Can "make rerelease" go backwards?

[Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.]

I recently tried something new ... built my own release
with what I (naively || <stupidly?>) thought would be
RELENG_5_3 sources.  I'm hoping to use this "release
server" to set up boxes for the foreseeable future, so
I really want 5.3-RELEASE.  It was a neat experience,
not so hard as it seemed at first, and it was tre kewl to
watch FreeBSD install via FTP over a LAN ....

However, in setting only the three variables required,
with CVSROOT equal to:

    freebsdanoncvs at anoncvs.freebsd.org:/home/ncvs,

    I ended up with 6.X-CURRENT sources, as I'm sure
that anyone familiar with the process could easily have
foreseen (I guess I thought that somehow BUILDNAME
might have something to do with it, besides the obvious).

If I set CVSCMDARGS to the time that 5.3-RELEASE was
tagged, will a "make rerelease" do the equivalent of
"turning back the clock" without having to clean out
the source tree, etc?  I had to move a box from here
to the colo (and then back again) to get enough bw
to do the job (after 3 unsuccessful tries from here)
and would really like to do the job with minimal
"pull" from the 'Net if possible ....

Anyone have a recommendation?  Or is it "back to
the colo" and "make release" again?

Thank you!

Kevin Kinsey