Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 06:19:07 -0500 (EST) From: Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net> To: Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg> Cc: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami <asami@FreeBSD.ORG>, Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>, <ports@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: overzealous cleaning of Attics in ports tree Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.4.30.0101160553580.14938-100000@blues.jpj.net> In-Reply-To: <20010116124608.A364@ringworld.oblivion.bg>
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> I've had several friends run to me for help with exactly this situation - > cvsup'ping yesterday from a 4.1-R ports tree, and winding up with several > unapplicable yet undeleted patches - the CVS and cvsup servers no longer know > anything about these patches, and the cvsup client refuses to delete files > it does not recognize. Thanks for clearing up the mystery of the old > patches lying around; any ideas as to how they can resolve that, short of > rm -rf /usr/ports and pulling in a bright-and-shiny fresh new ports tree? :( > [not always a perfect solution for people on slow modem links.. not too > much good publicity either, I think :(( ] If your friends have access to a place with a better connection, they could check out a copy of the ports tree at that place, then run rsync (ports/net/rsync/) with the --delete option to synchronize their own tree with the remote one. Just downloading a fresh copy would be simpler though, and it's only about 11 MB (I understand that local telephone calls are expensive in some places). -- Trevor Johnson http://jpj.net/~trevor/gpgkey.txt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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