From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Oct 27 10:56:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA07124 for ports-outgoing; Sun, 27 Oct 1996 10:56:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from po1.glue.umd.edu (po1.glue.umd.edu [129.2.128.44]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA07119; Sun, 27 Oct 1996 10:56:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from modem.eng.umd.edu (modem.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.187]) by po1.glue.umd.edu (8.8.2/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA14428; Sun, 27 Oct 1996 13:56:09 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by modem.eng.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA04552; Sun, 27 Oct 1996 13:55:43 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: modem.eng.umd.edu: chuckr owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 27 Oct 1996 13:55:42 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@modem.eng.umd.edu To: paul@FreeBSD.org, paul@netcraft.co.uk cc: ports Subject: Re: missing cvs directories In-Reply-To: <199610271735.RAA02678@originat.demon.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-ports@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and n3lxx, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 2.2 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------