From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 21 11:28:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from relay2.inwind.it (relay2.inwind.it [212.141.53.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D87C737B479 for ; Sat, 21 Oct 2000 11:28:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bartequi.ottodomain.org (62.98.154.197) by relay2.inwind.it (5.1.046) id 39CB09790075CF74; Sat, 21 Oct 2000 20:24:25 +0200 From: Salvo Bartolotta Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 19:25:49 GMT Message-ID: <20001021.19254900@bartequi.ottodomain.org> Subject: Re: gnucash and odd port behavior To: j mckitrick Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20001020114718.A44597@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20001020.20213100@bartequi.ottodomain.org> <20001021024109.A52139@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> X-Mailer: SuperCalifragilis X-Priority: 3 (Normal) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< On 10/21/00, 2:41:09 AM, j mckitrick wrote regarding Re: gnucash and odd port behavior: > | The recipe, in short, is: **add** a suitable "date" tag to your > | ports-supfile, as per the instructions in cvsup(1). > The '.' tag has worked fine until now. Why does it need to change? Actually, it does not :-) You should use the '.' tag AND a suitable date tag (cf cvsup(1) for the exact format) for your **first** update operation only. By "suitable" date I mean a date close to the date of "shipping" of your ports tree. The operation described above makes sense if you have reinstalled your ports tree; more precisely, if you have an *initial* ports tree AND no checkouts file. Your first cvsup operation will only create a checkouts file. If you have looked at John Polstra's considerations, you can see the sense and purpose of the foregoing. You make cvsup check out (ideally/approximately) what you already have: cvsup writes a checkouts file describing your collection; which checkouts file allows cvsup to operate correctly in all subsequent updates (ie no stale files & C). Needless to say, in all your subsequent updates you will be using the *normal* supfile. I have always been "philologically"/paranoidly correct (if not politically correct :-), and I have never seen stale file problems & C. HTH, Salvo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message