Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 19:25:49 GMT From: Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@inwind.it> To: j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gnucash and odd port behavior Message-ID: <20001021.19254900@bartequi.ottodomain.org> References: <20001020114718.A44597@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20001020.20213100@bartequi.ottodomain.org> <20001021024109.A52139@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< On 10/21/00, 2:41:09 AM, j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> wrote regarding Re: gnucash and odd port behavior: > | The recipe, in short, is: **add** a suitable "date" tag to your > | ports-supfile, as per the instructions in cvsup(1). > The '.' tag has worked fine until now. Why does it need to change? Actually, it does not :-) You should use the '.' tag AND a suitable date tag (cf cvsup(1) for the exact format) for your **first** update operation only. By "suitable" date I mean a date close to the date of "shipping" of your ports tree. The operation described above makes sense if you have reinstalled your ports tree; more precisely, if you have an *initial* ports tree AND no checkouts file. Your first cvsup operation will only create a checkouts file. If you have looked at John Polstra's considerations, you can see the sense and purpose of the foregoing. You make cvsup check out (ideally/approximately) what you already have: cvsup writes a checkouts file describing your collection; which checkouts file allows cvsup to operate correctly in all subsequent updates (ie no stale files & C). Needless to say, in all your subsequent updates you will be using the *normal* supfile. I have always been "philologically"/paranoidly correct (if not politically correct :-), and I have never seen stale file problems & C. HTH, Salvo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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