Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 18:29:06 -0700
From: Will Andrews <will@csociety.org>
To: FreeBSD Ports <ports@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: Three-level ports (Re: RFC: patch for bsd.port.mk to use ${PORTSDIR}/MOVED)
Message-ID: <20030818012906.GV95290@procyon.firepipe.net>
In-Reply-To: <20030818003850.GB812@k7.mavetju>
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On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 10:38:50AM +1000, Edwin Groothuis wrote: > On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 03:10:23PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > [*] e.g. addressing some key technical issues like the fact that all > > the repo-copies needed to move ports around would more than double the > > size of the ports CVS repository > > You should use the mv(1) command instead of the cp(1) command, > specially for this. It doesn't matter for history, history is in > the files, not in the directories. Unless I'm mistaken, this would not work as cvs checkouts would get confused and bomb when they see that there's no ,v file for a given checkout file... regards, -- wca
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