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Date:      Sat, 31 Mar 2001 15:34:50 -0500
From:      Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>
To:        FreeBSD Ports <ports@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: Error: your port uses an old layout.
Message-ID:  <20010331153450.J15392@casimir.physics.purdue.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20010331222710.B13539@mandark.attica.home>; from abgoeree@uwnet.nl on Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 10:27:10PM %2B0200
References:  <200103310749.f2V7mxf78610@ns1.unixathome.org> <20010331131052.E15392@casimir.physics.purdue.edu> <20010331222710.B13539@mandark.attica.home>

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On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 10:27:10PM +0200, Andre Goeree wrote:
> Please read and try out the filter i suggested in my previous
> reply. It takes care of *all* problems related to CVSup not deleting
> files. As you experienced it's not enough to just remove pkg and
> patches... My approach is to take the CVSup checkouts file(s) and the
> information about "live files" (files that should exist on disk)
> stored in the checkouts files. The filter i described does just that,
> it makes a list of "live files". By copying these live files to another
> location or rolling a tarball of these files (and these files only) as
> i suggested you get rid of things that shouldn't be in the portsdir.
> After copying/rolling the tarball you rm -fr the old portsdir and
> copy/untar the live files to your portsdir. This is all there is to be
> done. No CVSup from scratch needed anymore :-)

The problem with yours is that it is even more intense in metadata ops
on the filesystem than mine is.  And I'm pretty dang sure that mine will
work.  :-)

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