From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 17 18:29:07 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7169F37B401 for ; Sun, 17 Aug 2003 18:29:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from procyon.firepipe.net (procyon.firepipe.net [198.78.66.151]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D26843F85 for ; Sun, 17 Aug 2003 18:29:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from will@csociety.org) Received: by procyon.firepipe.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 467EA45DC7; Sun, 17 Aug 2003 18:29:06 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 18:29:06 -0700 From: Will Andrews To: FreeBSD Ports Message-ID: <20030818012906.GV95290@procyon.firepipe.net> Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD Ports References: <3F3FF917.8040903@ciam.ru> <20030817221023.GA68086@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20030818003850.GB812@k7.mavetju> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030818003850.GB812@k7.mavetju> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Subject: Re: Three-level ports (Re: RFC: patch for bsd.port.mk to use ${PORTSDIR}/MOVED) X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 01:29:07 -0000 On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 10:38:50AM +1000, Edwin Groothuis wrote: > On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 03:10:23PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > [*] e.g. addressing some key technical issues like the fact that all > > the repo-copies needed to move ports around would more than double the > > size of the ports CVS repository > > You should use the mv(1) command instead of the cp(1) command, > specially for this. It doesn't matter for history, history is in > the files, not in the directories. Unless I'm mistaken, this would not work as cvs checkouts would get confused and bomb when they see that there's no ,v file for a given checkout file... regards, -- wca