From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Oct 30 21:18:39 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA27426 for ports-outgoing; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 21:18:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.webspan.net (mail.webspan.net [206.154.70.7]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA27412 for ; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 21:18:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from orion.webspan.net (orion.webspan.net [206.154.70.5]) by mail.webspan.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA04987; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 00:17:32 -0500 (EST) Received: from orion.webspan.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by orion.webspan.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA28283; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 00:17:31 -0500 (EST) To: Paul Richards cc: Chuck Robey , ports From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: missing cvs directories In-reply-to: Your message of "28 Oct 1996 16:15:20 GMT." <57683vysiv.fsf@tees.elsevier.co.uk> Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 00:17:31 -0500 Message-ID: <28280.846739051@orion.webspan.net> Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Paul Richards wrote in message ID <57683vysiv.fsf@tees.elsevier.co.uk>: > Chuck Robey 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