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Date:      Sun, 27 Oct 1996 13:55:42 -0500 (EST)
From:      Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>
To:        paul@FreeBSD.org, paul@netcraft.co.uk
Cc:        ports <ports@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: missing cvs directories
Message-ID:  <Pine.OSF.3.95.961027135424.4154D-100000@modem.eng.umd.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199610271735.RAA02678@originat.demon.co.uk>

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On Sun, 27 Oct 1996, Paul Richards wrote:

> I just tried to update ports (probably not done it in a while) and
> there were lots of missing repository directories. I just nuked the
> port and checked it out again the first few times but the third time
> (xemacs) I got suspicious that my tree was this badly smashed and
> took a look.
> 
> I've got a directory
> 
> /home/ports/editors/xemacs/patches
> 
> Anyone know what happened? Things aren't supposed to totally vanish
> like that.  As I said, xemacs was the third, I remember the first
> was archive/zip/patches and the second was cad/pcb/patches. The
> scary thing is that none of these ports now have patches, did
> someone simply nuke the patches directory from the cvs repository
> because they thought it wasn't needed anymore?

I just checked zip and xemacs, they do have the patches dir missing, but
they both build fine, regardless.

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