Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1999 21:04:24 -0800 (PST) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: marcel@scc.nl Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cleaning house on /usr/src/* Message-ID: <199912090504.VAA36946@vashon.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <384EA2CF.B3E40E35@scc.nl> References: <Pine.BSF.4.20.9912080909140.78678-100000@lcl225.cvzoom.net> <199912081718.JAA29021@vashon.polstra.com> <384EA2CF.B3E40E35@scc.nl>
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In article <384EA2CF.B3E40E35@scc.nl>, Marcel Moolenaar
<marcel@scc.nl> wrote:
> John Polstra wrote:
>
> > Why are you getting these junk directories? CVSup should be
> > deleting them if they're empty. You really shouldn't need to
> > wipe out your tree and start over -- not ever. Did you omit the
> > "delete" keyword from your supfile?
>
> I recently (last week) cvsup'd a -current source tree over a -stable
> source tree with the assumption that cvsup would sort it all out. I
> found out that cvsup doesn't (always?) remove files that are no
> longer pertinent. This is with the delete keyword present.
When you change the tag (e.g., go from -stable to -current or vice
versa), it's a special case. That's because the "checkouts" file
(which CVSup uses to decide which files to delete) contains the tag
as part of its name. In the future I may recommend omitting the
"use-rel-suffix" option in order to avoid this problem. Meanwhile,
the CVSup FAQ has some advice about it in questions 11-13:
http://www.polstra.com/projects/freeware/CVSup/
If for whatever reason you do think you have some extra files,
there's a script "cvsupchk" in the contrib subdirectory of the CVSup
distribution which will find them for you and delete them.
John
--
John Polstra jdp@polstra.com
John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA
"No matter how cynical I get, I just can't keep up." -- Nora Ephron
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