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From: "Andre Goeree" <abgoeree@uwnet.nl>
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 23:44:46 +0200
To: Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>
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Subject: Re: Error: your port uses an old layout.
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On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 03:34:50PM -0500, Will Andrews wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 10:27:10PM +0200, Andre Goeree wrote:
> > Please read and try out the filter i suggested in my previous
> > reply. It takes care of *all* problems related to CVSup not deleting
> > files. As you experienced it's not enough to just remove pkg and
> > patches... My approach is to take the CVSup checkouts file(s) and the
> > information about "live files" (files that should exist on disk)
> > stored in the checkouts files. The filter i described does just that,
> > it makes a list of "live files". By copying these live files to another
> > location or rolling a tarball of these files (and these files only) as
> > i suggested you get rid of things that shouldn't be in the portsdir.
> > After copying/rolling the tarball you rm -fr the old portsdir and
> > copy/untar the live files to your portsdir. This is all there is to be
> > done. No CVSup from scratch needed anymore :-)
> 
> The problem with yours is that it is even more intense in metadata ops
> on the filesystem than mine is.  And I'm pretty dang sure that mine will
> work.  :-)
> 
> -- 
> wca

I am 100% sure my way works! It saves me a lot of nightmares, having
to CVSup /usr/src from scratch over a 56K modem is the worst of them.

--Andre.

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