From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Feb 4 10:49: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from wall.polstra.com (rtrwan160.accessone.com [206.213.115.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA60237B69D for ; Sun, 4 Feb 2001 10:48:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f14Iml291126 for ; Sun, 4 Feb 2001 10:48:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@wall.polstra.com) Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.11.1/8.11.0) id f14ImkV01881; Sun, 4 Feb 2001 10:48:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp) Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 10:48:46 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200102041848.f14ImkV01881@vashon.polstra.com> To: ports@freebsd.org From: John Polstra Reply-To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: some attics coming back... In-Reply-To: <200102040434.f144Y3t01970@mobile.wemm.org> References: <200102040434.f144Y3t01970@mobile.wemm.org> Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In article <200102040434.f144Y3t01970@mobile.wemm.org>, Peter Wemm wrote: > I will be restoring some Attic files that existed with the > RELEASE_4_2 tags. People are using cvsup to try and update 4.2-R CD > ports trees and cvsup is failing to delete old patches. CVSup is "failing" only in the sense that some people aren't using it properly. It _will_ reliably delete old patches if it thinks they belong to it. See: http://www.polstra.com/projects/freeware/CVSup/faq.html#caniadopt as well as the two questions following it in the CVSup FAQ. Trust me, if CVSup deleted "extra" files that didn't explicitly belong to it, you wouldn't like that either. Do you value your kernel config files? ;-) For those who didn't follow the procedures above and who think they might have some orphaned files in their trees, the standard CVSup distribution contains a script called "cvsupchk" which will clean things up. It is in the directory "contrib/cvsupchk". Maybe one of you should make a port out of it (*hint hint, nudge nudge*). :-) John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com 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-ports" in the body of the message