From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Mar 31 13:46: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from dagobert.skystream.nl (smtp.uwnet.nl [195.7.130.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEB4E37B71B for ; Sat, 31 Mar 2001 13:45:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from abgoeree@uwnet.nl) Received: from dyn.dailup.c227128200.isd.to (dyn.dailup.c227128200.isd.to [213.227.128.200]) by dagobert.skystream.nl (8.11.3/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f2VLoTA24546 for ; Sat, 31 Mar 2001 23:50:29 +0200 Received: (qmail 14081 invoked by uid 1000); 31 Mar 2001 21:44:46 -0000 From: "Andre Goeree" Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 23:44:46 +0200 To: Will Andrews Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Error: your port uses an old layout. Message-ID: <20010331234446.A14073@mandark.attica.home> Reply-To: abgoeree@uwnet.nl References: <200103310749.f2V7mxf78610@ns1.unixathome.org> <20010331131052.E15392@casimir.physics.purdue.edu> <20010331222710.B13539@mandark.attica.home> <20010331153450.J15392@casimir.physics.purdue.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010331153450.J15392@casimir.physics.purdue.edu>; from will@physics.purdue.edu on Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 03:34:50PM -0500 X-Sender: abgoeree@uwnet.nl Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message