Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 14:44:05 -0500 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> To: Gerhard Sittig <Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/print/dvipdfm Makefile distinfo Message-ID: <39F49505.FF028AEA@math.missouri.edu> References: <20001021231123.A71251@bonsai.home.renfro.org> <39F305F8.D395539@math.missouri.edu> <20001023191650.I25237@speedy.gsinet>
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Gerhard Sittig wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 10:21 -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > > When I submitted the PR updating the dvipdfm port, the diff > > file I sent included the line: > > > > Only in dvipdfm-orig: files > > > > I also included a comment before the diffs to the effect: > > please remove files. > > > > Maybe I should have kept the directory files, and only removed > > its contents. > > > > In any case, does the process for updating the ports from PR's > > include removing patches? > > Maybe diff's -N option is of help here. It creates "diffs > against /dev/null" for nonexistent files. This will make new > files show up with all their content in the diff and show when > all the content of an obsoleted file vanishes. > I use the -N option when adding new files, but when removing files, it would seem to me that the message "Only in ..." would be more helpful. It would seem to me that the patch command should remove those files. Also when I submitted the PR, I did include the comment "don't forget to remove .... ." -- Stephen Montgomery-Smith stephen@math.missouri.edu 307 Math Science Building stephen@showme.missouri.edu Department of Mathematics stephen@missouri.edu University of Missouri-Columbia Columbia, MO 65211 USA Phone (573) 882 4540 Fax (573) 882 1869 http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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