From owner-freebsd-current Wed Dec 8 21: 4:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from wall.polstra.com (rtrwan160.accessone.com [206.213.115.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 869571556D for ; Wed, 8 Dec 1999 21:04:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA25510; Wed, 8 Dec 1999 21:04:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) From: John Polstra Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id VAA36946; Wed, 8 Dec 1999 21:04:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1999 21:04:24 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199912090504.VAA36946@vashon.polstra.com> To: marcel@scc.nl Subject: Re: Cleaning house on /usr/src/* In-Reply-To: <384EA2CF.B3E40E35@scc.nl> References: <199912081718.JAA29021@vashon.polstra.com> <384EA2CF.B3E40E35@scc.nl> Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Cc: current@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <384EA2CF.B3E40E35@scc.nl>, Marcel Moolenaar 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message