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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
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Gary Palmer                                          FreeBSD Core Team Member
FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info



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