From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 6 21:18:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA28406 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 6 Nov 1996 21:18:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from austin.polstra.com (austin.polstra.com [206.213.73.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA28401 for ; Wed, 6 Nov 1996 21:18:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from austin.polstra.com (jdp@localhost) by austin.polstra.com (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA14764; Wed, 6 Nov 1996 21:13:36 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199611070513.VAA14764@austin.polstra.com> To: "Louis A. Mamakos" cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: SUP on sup.freebsd.org In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 06 Nov 1996 22:51:19 EST." <199611070351.WAA04403@whizzo.transsys.com> References: <199611070351.WAA04403@whizzo.transsys.com> Date: Wed, 06 Nov 1996 21:13:35 -0800 From: John Polstra Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Is there a way to have cvsup not re-populate the Attic files? Yes, as a matter of fact there is. You can use "refuse" files for that. See CVSUP(1) for details, but I'll give you the recipe here. In each directory "/sup/", create a file named "refuse" containing this line: */Attic/* (where and are the corresponding settings from your supfile, of course). This will make CVSup completely ignore all Attic directories. What that means: It won't delete anything from them, but it won't repopulate them either. So, after you've set up your "refuse" files, you'll have to use something like "find ... | xargs rm" to manually delete all the "Attic/*" files. After that, they'll remain empty. > You'll be happy to know that if they are removed, cvsup will "fix" > the "problem" and replace them.. I'm smilin' :-) John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth