From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Jan 16 13:52:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mobile.wemm.org (c1315225-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com [65.0.135.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA1AA37B402; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 13:52:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from netplex.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mobile.wemm.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f0GLqSs17351; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 13:52:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Message-Id: <200101162152.f0GLqSs17351@mobile.wemm.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Trevor Johnson , Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami , Will Andrews , ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: overzealous cleaning of Attics in ports tree In-Reply-To: <20010116124608.A364@ringworld.oblivion.bg> Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 13:52:27 -0800 From: Peter Wemm Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Peter Pentchev wrote: > On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 07:06:10AM -0500, Trevor Johnson wrote: > > > > > I have a copy of everything that was deleted sitting on freefall in a > > > .tar.gz. I really really do not want this cruft to go back into > > > /home/ncvs/ports, but as a compromise how about leaving it extracted > > > elsewhere? Perhaps even /home/ncvs/oldports ? That avoids the > > > wasted time multiplied by the number of cvs updates multiplied by the > > > number of developers, but still leaves it within reach IF necessary. > > > > I don't want to jump through hoops when dealing with removed files. In PR > > 24276, David Gilbert writes: > > > > In the XFree86-4 port as installed by distribution CDROMs, there > > are a number of patch files that have been deleted from the cvs > > tree without being put in the attic. Even with "*default delete" > > turned on in my supfile, patch-1 is not deleted and causes the > > XFree86-4 port build to fail. > > > > This is a result of the purge, isn't it? > > 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 :(( ] I am going to go through today and restore the Attic files that existed in or after the RELEASE_4_2 tag. I wasn't counting on cvsup in checkout mode breaking here. cvs does the right thing. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message