Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 14:38:08 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: Eric Thornton <ewthorn2@eos.ncsu.edu> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Attic cleanout broke cvsup? (Re: port problems) Message-ID: <20010119143808.A11948@citusc17.usc.edu> In-Reply-To: <01011917171700.00798@reefbreak.surfbbx>; from ewthorn2@eos.ncsu.edu on Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 05:17:17PM -0500 References: <01011821485500.01557@reefbreak.surfbbx> <20010118204017.A93541@citusc17.usc.edu> <01011917171700.00798@reefbreak.surfbbx>
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--T4sUOijqQbZv57TR Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 05:17:17PM -0500, Eric Thornton wrote: > *default delete use-rel-suffix Hmm, this should be deleting old patches. Actually, I think I know what's going on here. There was recently a huge clean-out of the CVS "Attic" in ports. cvsup will only delete files which are present on the client system, and are in the attic on the server, or those which cvsup itself created at some point in the past. So if you installed the ports collection e.g. from a CD, or from downloading the tarball prior to the Great Ports Revolution, and now try and cvsup for the first time, all the old patches/ files etc are being treated by cvsup as "I don't know what this is, I'm not touching it" and then causing most port builds to fail. The only real solutions I can see to this are either: * bring back all of the attic directories (not just the ones which were removed in error) * make the "old port layout" error less fatal, and have it check intelligently for whether the port is actually a new layout one + old crufty files, before failing. Obviously the second one sounds better :-) Kris -- NOTE: To fetch an updated copy of my GPG key which has not expired, finger kris@FreeBSD.org --T4sUOijqQbZv57TR Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6aMHQWry0BWjoQKURAus0AJ4tJesr7Xv2bzGgPwHyYOGt6sUEhQCeMjhF lQYoGrtsLX2f0330ozY3Ve4= =JUk2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --T4sUOijqQbZv57TR-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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