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From: Josh MacDonald <jmacd@CS.Berkeley.EDU>
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To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
cc: karl@mcs.net, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Ports explosion 
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May I suggest:

if [ -d patches -a "`echo patches/patch-*`" != "patches/patch-*" ]; then 
# do stuff
fi

instead of the current [ -d patches ]?

-josh

> > Actually, the patches directory is not supposed to be there.  My guess
> > is that you did a "cvs update" without the "-P" (prune) option.
> 
> Actually, that's because he first checked it out without pruning (Karl
> needs to read up on CVS a little more).  I noticed that in his
> example.
> 
> Karl, watch closely.. :-)
> 
> jkh@time-> cvs co zip
> cvs checkout: Updating zip
> U zip/Makefile
> cvs checkout: Updating zip/files
> U zip/files/md5
> cvs checkout: Updating zip/patches
> cvs checkout: Updating zip/pkg
> U zip/pkg/COMMENT
> U zip/pkg/DESCR
> U zip/pkg/PLIST
> jkh@time-> ls zip/patches
> CVS
> jkh@time-> cvs release -d zip
> You have [0] altered files in this repository.
> Are you sure you want to release (and delete) module `zip': y
> jkh@time-> cvs co -P zip
> cvs checkout: Updating zip
> U zip/Makefile
> cvs checkout: Updating zip/files
> U zip/files/md5
> cvs checkout: Updating zip/patches
> cvs checkout: Updating zip/pkg
> U zip/pkg/COMMENT
> U zip/pkg/DESCR
> U zip/pkg/PLIST
> jkh@time-> ls zip/patches
> ls: zip/patches: No such file or directory
> 
> 					Jordan