From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 23 17:17:10 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB2F016A420 for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 17:17:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from xfb52@dial.pipex.com) Received: from smtp-out3.blueyonder.co.uk (smtp-out3.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.213.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33C7443D7E for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 17:17:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from xfb52@dial.pipex.com) Received: from [192.168.0.2] ([82.41.33.116]) by smtp-out3.blueyonder.co.uk with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Thu, 23 Feb 2006 17:18:05 +0000 Message-ID: <43FDEE0B.5050009@dial.pipex.com> Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 17:16:59 +0000 From: Alex Zbyslaw User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-GB; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051106 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Maness References: <43FDDE6E.8020706@chrismaness.com> In-Reply-To: <43FDDE6E.8020706@chrismaness.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 23 Feb 2006 17:18:05.0621 (UTC) FILETIME=[1BED8650:01C6389D] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CVSUP ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 17:17:11 -0000 Chris Maness wrote: > I have a question in regards to CVSUP. Does it sometimes not delete > old files. I did a sync on my ports. I built CUPS and the install > scripts were putting files in the wrong place. I fixed it by manually > deleting the cups directory and getting the fresh tarballs from from > the ports site. I had just synced two weeks ago. I just thought this > behavior was strange. Can anyone shed light on this? What is definitely true, is that cvsup will not delete any files *you* create in the ports tree, and that is a positive feature. I can't say whether this was your situation or not, but AFAIK, under normal circumstances, cvsup will delete files which are deleted from the port, otherwise many ports would have been afflicted with patches that failed to disappear when they should. It'll take a cvsup guru to tell you if there any circumstances in which that doesn't happen, but you could try the cvsup faq at http://www.cvsup.org/faq.html and see if that sheds any light. --Alex