Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 20:31:21 +0100 From: "Andre Goeree" <abgoeree@uwnet.nl> To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: old port layout? Message-ID: <20010220203121.A15126@mandark.attica.home> In-Reply-To: <3A92A03E.4D728DEC@azstarnet.com>; from Castalia@azstarnet.com on Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 09:50:06AM -0700 References: <000901c0995f$1236d4a0$00e1fea9@parkson> <20010217212546.A60502@mollari.cthul.hu> <20010219222550.B1163@ameritech.net> <3A92A03E.4D728DEC@azstarnet.com>
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On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 09:50:06AM -0700, Bradford Castalia wrote: > This seems to be a common gotcha after a cvsup when attempting to build a port: > > Error: your port uses an old layout. Please update it to match this bsd.port.mk. > If you have updated your ports collection via cvsup and are still getting this error, > see Q12 and Q13 in the cvsup FAQ on http://www.polstra.com for further information. > *** Error code 1 > > When this happened to me after a 4.1.1-RELEASE to 4.2-STABLE update here's what > fixed the problem. As root: > > cd /usr/ports > rm -rf * > cvsup -f -L 2 /usr/sup/ports-supfile Your ports lay-out is possibly out of date because some (empty) directories still exist in your ports tree (read ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk). Removing /usr/ports and re-cvsup is a sure but drastic way to get rid of the problem. IMHO it's also a waste of time/bandwith (although the ports lay-out isn't that big in Mb's but think of /usr/src). At the moment i'm writing a script that takes a checkouts file and the (cvsup) starting directory as arguments and produces a file list of all files found in the checkouts file (and on disk) in the format: relative_path/filenames the created file list can then be used to roll a tarball like this: tar -cf /wherever/tarball.tar --files-from /wherever/list_i_created If you have separate checkouts files for ports, cat them to one file and it works the same:). The advantage of creating a tarball the way i described is that *only* files that have a (valid) entry in your checkouts file *and* exist on disk get backed up. Any kind of garbage in the cvsup'ed directory will be left out. In fact i started writing the script as a workaround to Q-13 of the cvsup-FAQ. Although the script is in an experimental state right now (i need to know more about the format of the checkouts file), the script works:) I have succesfully backed up /usr/doc this way and extracted the tarball to a different directory where i built the docs as test. With my next buildworld i will try it with /usr/src. Anyone who, has problems with the port lay-out and, is willing to give this script a try can get a copy. Just ask me for it. Regards, --Andre. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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