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Date:      Tue, 20 Feb 2001 22:22:54 +0100
From:      "Andre Goeree" <abgoeree@uwnet.nl>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: old port layout?
Message-ID:  <20010220222253.A28847@mandark.attica.home>
In-Reply-To: <20010220120142.A36208@mollari.cthul.hu>; from kris@obsecurity.org on Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 12:01:42PM -0800
References:  <000901c0995f$1236d4a0$00e1fea9@parkson> <20010217212546.A60502@mollari.cthul.hu> <20010219222550.B1163@ameritech.net> <3A92A03E.4D728DEC@azstarnet.com> <20010220203121.A15126@mandark.attica.home> <20010220120142.A36208@mollari.cthul.hu>

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On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 12:01:42PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 08:31:21PM +0100, Andre Goeree wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> cvsupchk in the cvsup-bin port (not installed by default) does much of
> this already.
> 
> Kris

Yes, but you have to have the cvs repository. 
A lot of us only cvsup ports, sources and doc and don't have
the cvs repository. One of the reasons why i started writing
the script is that i could not find and utility that did
the same thing as cvsupchk without having the repository.

-- Andre.

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