Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 09:07:07 +0100 From: "Andre Goeree" <abgoeree@uwnet.nl> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: old port layout? Message-ID: <20010221090707.A929@mandark.attica.home> In-Reply-To: <20010220200813.C43311@mollari.cthul.hu>; from kris@obsecurity.org on Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 08:08:13PM -0800 References: <000901c0995f$1236d4a0$00e1fea9@parkson> <20010217212546.A60502@mollari.cthul.hu> <20010219222550.B1163@ameritech.net> <3A92A03E.4D728DEC@azstarnet.com> <20010220203121.A15126@mandark.attica.home> <20010220120142.A36208@mollari.cthul.hu> <20010220222253.A28847@mandark.attica.home> <20010220200813.C43311@mollari.cthul.hu>
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On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 08:08:13PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 10:22:54PM +0100, Andre Goeree wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 12:01:42PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 08:31:21PM +0100, Andre Goeree wrote: > > > > > > > The advantage of creating a tarball the way i described is that *only* > > > > files that have a (valid) entry in your checkouts file *and* exist on > > > > disk get backed up. Any kind of garbage in the cvsup'ed directory will > > > > be left out. In fact i started writing the script as a workaround to > > > > Q-13 of the cvsup-FAQ. > > > > > > cvsupchk in the cvsup-bin port (not installed by default) does much of > > > this already. > > > > > > Kris > > > > Yes, but you have to have the cvs repository. > > A lot of us only cvsup ports, sources and doc and don't have > > the cvs repository. One of the reasons why i started writing > > the script is that i could not find and utility that did > > the same thing as cvsupchk without having the repository. > > Nope, I don't believe you do need the cvs repository. All it does is > compare the list of files which cvsup thinks you should have with what > you actually do have. > > Kris Ehhh, ago@mandark$ ./cvsupchk FATAL: CVS root directory not specified. Use the '-d' option to specify the CVS root or set the environment variable 'CVSROOT'. ago@mandark$ I've tried to set the -d option to a cvs server, no dice it wants CVSROOT to be a directory. -- Andre. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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