Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 13:52:27 -0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> To: Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net>, Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami <asami@FreeBSD.ORG>, Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: overzealous cleaning of Attics in ports tree Message-ID: <200101162152.f0GLqSs17351@mobile.wemm.org> In-Reply-To: <20010116124608.A364@ringworld.oblivion.bg>
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Peter Pentchev wrote: > On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 07:06:10AM -0500, Trevor Johnson wrote: > > > > > I have a copy of everything that was deleted sitting on freefall in a > > > .tar.gz. I really really do not want this cruft to go back into > > > /home/ncvs/ports, but as a compromise how about leaving it extracted > > > elsewhere? Perhaps even /home/ncvs/oldports ? That avoids the > > > wasted time multiplied by the number of cvs updates multiplied by the > > > number of developers, but still leaves it within reach IF necessary. > > > > I don't want to jump through hoops when dealing with removed files. In PR > > 24276, David Gilbert writes: > > > > In the XFree86-4 port as installed by distribution CDROMs, there > > are a number of patch files that have been deleted from the cvs > > tree without being put in the attic. Even with "*default delete" > > turned on in my supfile, patch-1 is not deleted and causes the > > XFree86-4 port build to fail. > > > > This is a result of the purge, isn't it? > > I've had several friends run to me for help with exactly this situation - > cvsup'ping yesterday from a 4.1-R ports tree, and winding up with several > unapplicable yet undeleted patches - the CVS and cvsup servers no longer know > anything about these patches, and the cvsup client refuses to delete files > it does not recognize. Thanks for clearing up the mystery of the old > patches lying around; any ideas as to how they can resolve that, short of > rm -rf /usr/ports and pulling in a bright-and-shiny fresh new ports tree? :( > [not always a perfect solution for people on slow modem links.. not too > much good publicity either, I think :(( ] I am going to go through today and restore the Attic files that existed in or after the RELEASE_4_2 tag. I wasn't counting on cvsup in checkout mode breaking here. cvs does the right thing. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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