Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 00:17:31 -0500 From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@freebsd.org> To: Paul Richards <p.richards@elsevier.co.uk> Cc: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>, ports <ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: missing cvs directories Message-ID: <28280.846739051@orion.webspan.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "28 Oct 1996 16:15:20 GMT." <57683vysiv.fsf@tees.elsevier.co.uk>
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Paul Richards wrote in message ID <57683vysiv.fsf@tees.elsevier.co.uk>: > Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> writes: > > > I just checked zip and xemacs, they do have the patches dir missing, but > > they both build fine, regardless. > > That's not the issue. Someone/something has deleted these directories > from the *repository*. You can no longer check out code that once > existed. That's not supposed to happen (particularly not on this > scale, it was quite a list by the time I'd finished). Because there is no need to keep around old Attic entries (the ports tree is never tagged), Peter goes through occasionally with a broom and cleans them out. He normally waits a month or so so that most people who use copies of the repository manage miss the dreaded CVS errors. I guess you just waited too long. Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info
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