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To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
Subject: Re: FAQ's (was: Makeworld is dying...) 
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Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 21:39:47 -0600
From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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In message <20000924112423.A22965@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> Brooks Davis writes:
: in general this failure to delete files will results in wasted space and
: nothing more.

I can't say about FreeBSD, but sup has a delete option too (cvsup was
influanced by sup).  I use sup/rsync to get my NetBSD sources.  Their
sources have moved around enough that failure to have this in my
sup/rsync file caused NetBSD to be completely uncompilable by me.  Now
I did get the CVS tree, which meant that all those files that moved to
the attic weren't in the attic, and thus were cluttering up my
NetBSD /usr/src tree.  This clutter caused obsolete files to be used
instead of the newer, good ones and caused three programs to fail to
compile for me.

The really sad part is that it took me two months to figure out why my
freshly checked out sources wouldn't build, while other people had no
problems at all.  I didn't look too hard for a while, but it did take
about a day of hunting to finally figure out why...

Warner


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