Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 21:42:04 +0200 (EET) From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@freebsd.org> To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: some attics coming back... Message-ID: <200102041942.f14Jg6325245@vic.sabbo.net> In-Reply-To: <200102041848.f14ImkV01881@vashon.polstra.com> from "John Polstra" at Feb 04, 2001 10:48:46 AM
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> > In article <200102040434.f144Y3t01970@mobile.wemm.org>, Peter Wemm > <peter@netplex.com.au> 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*). :-) Maybe it's better to add some option into cvsup, which would instruct it to delete all orphaned files and dirs? -Maxim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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