Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 12:52:54 -0700 (PDT) From: John Polstra <ports@freebsd.org> To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Error: your port uses an old layout. Message-ID: <200104011952.f31Jqs300558@vashon.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <20010331131052.E15392@casimir.physics.purdue.edu> References: <200103310749.f2V7mxf78610@ns1.unixathome.org> <20010331131052.E15392@casimir.physics.purdue.edu>
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In article <20010331131052.E15392@casimir.physics.purdue.edu>, Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu> wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 07:48:58PM +1200, Dan Langille wrote: > > 2 - Perhaps this will be answered by Q1, but: Lately, the most common=20 > > solution I've seen hadned out is rm -rf /usr/ports and cvsup again. Not= > =20 > > only is that a huge waste of bandwidth, it's also a huge burdon on those= > =20 > > with dial up connections. Is there a more practical solution? > > Yes. A script to find and prune all the old stuff is more practical. > Only problem is, nobody's written one yet. The suspects in particular > are all of the pkg/ and patches/ directories. There has been a script called cvsupchk in the contrib subdirectory of the CVSup source and binary distributions for a very long time. I put out a general call for somebody to make a port of it a couple of months ago, but didn't get any takers. John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Chögyam Trungpa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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