From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 8 20:49: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from quackerjack.cc.vt.edu (quackerjack.cc.vt.edu [198.82.160.250]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84C7214BDD for ; Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:48:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jobaldwi@vt.edu) Received: from sable.cc.vt.edu (sable.cc.vt.edu [128.173.16.30]) by quackerjack.cc.vt.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA06106; Thu, 8 Apr 1999 23:46:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: from john.baldwin.cx (jobaldwi.campus.vt.edu [198.82.67.63]) by sable.cc.vt.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA18564; Thu, 8 Apr 1999 23:46:57 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 23:46:55 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: John Polstra , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: CVSup question.... Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 08-Apr-99 John Polstra wrote: > John Baldwin wrote: >> Sorry to bother you directly, > > No problem! > >>> On 01-Apr-99 John Baldwin wrote: >>> >>>> I have a cvsup question. I use CVSup to update a local copy of >>>> the CVS repository on one of my machines. In order to avoid a >>>> really big hit the first time I supped, I tar and gzip'd a copy of >>>> the repository off of a machine at work and ftp'd to my machine. >>>> Then I extracted it and fired up cvsup. It works for the most >>>> part, but not always. Here's teh problem, it doesn't delete any >>>> of those files from the original tarball when they are removed >>>> from the repository because it didn't create my local copies of >>>> the files, and it is courteous enough to not delete them in case >>>> I am making local changes or something. However, I'm not making >>>> local changes and want to override this behavior if possible. Any >>>> suggestions on how to get my source tree really up-to-date? > > To find and eliminate the extraneous files, check out Joseph Koshy's > "cvsupchk" program in the contrib subdirectory of the CVSup-16.0 > distribution. This fixed it. Thanks! > For other hints about maintaining local modifications, check the FAQ > at . > > To keep CVSup from touching certain files even though they "belong" > to it, read about "refuse files" in cvsup(1). > > I hope this helps. If it addresses your question well enough, then > perhaps you should quote it back to the -questions list as a > follow-up to your original question there. Maybe it will help > somebody else. Done, as you can see. :) > John --- John Baldwin -- http://members.freedomnet.com/~jbaldwin/ PGP Key: http://members.freedomnet.com/~jbaldwin/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message