Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 22:23:13 -0800 (PST) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: sparc@freebsd.org Cc: drosih@rpi.edu Subject: Re: CVSup: nag nag nag Message-ID: <200301240623.h0O6NDmj060228@vashon.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <p05200f12ba566a02be1b@[128.113.24.47]> References: <200301240031.h0O0VR3V059780@vashon.polstra.com> <p05200f12ba566a02be1b@[128.113.24.47]>
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In article <p05200f12ba566a02be1b@[128.113.24.47]>, Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> wrote: > I've been using it since the day it came out, seems to be working > fine. And for reasons unrelated to cvsup, I've been doing things > like: > rm -Rf /usr/ports/net > cvsup ~/cvsup/all_ports > and comparing the entire ports directory on my Sparc ultra-10 machine > to the same tree on my dual-Athlon machine. [aside: The dual-athlon > is faster...]. I've just been comparing for the existence of files > and directories though, I haven't been doing an actual diff-type > comparison of the contents of any files. I could do that too. I'm not too worried about that. I'm mostly interested in hearing about any unexpected runtime errors or crashes. > As long as I'm replying to a question on cvsup, here's a question > that I can't seem to find in the man pages. Is there a way I could > say "do all the work of a normal CVSup run, and tell me what *would* > change, but don't change anything"? Well ... sort of. You can add an extra argument to the command line which is the name of an empty directory. Whenever CVSup updates a file, it will put the new version into the appropriate place under that directory rather than where it really belongs. It's kind of like DESTDIR with make buildworld. I should warn you, though, that I have not really been trying to maintain this feature for the past few years. I'm not absolutely sure it works right any more. John -- John Polstra John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Chögyam Trungpa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message
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